Idioms describing a crowded holiday season

1. 人头攒动

Pinyin rén tóu cuán dòng

Interpretation There are a lot of people, crowding and moving. It is generally used to describe certain places that are more densely populated, to a lesser degree than a sea of people.

Near synonyms bustling, crowded.

Antonym sparsely populated, sparsely traveled.

2, 人声鼎沸

Pinyin rén shēng dǐng fèi

Explanation describes the clamor of people. Ding, an ancient copper-cast pot, usually with three feet and two ears. Boiling, boiling water. Dingboo, which originally means that the water in the pot boils and makes a sound, now refers to the noisy voices of the crowd, just like a boiling pot. 

ExampleThe square was already abuzz with the sound of people.

Near synonyms people and horses shouting, deafening, noisy, lively, bustling, people shouting and horses neighing, noisy

Antonyms ten thousand voices are silent, silent, silent

Usage subject-predicate tense; as predicate, object,; simile of a noisy crowd

From Feng Menglong, "Awakening the World to HengYan," Volume Ten, Ming Dynasty: "In the afternoon of one day, Liu Fang was tidying up in the store, only to hear the sound of people."

3, 人声鼎沸

Pinyin rén shēng dǐng fèi

Explanation describes the clamor of human voices. Ding, an ancient copper-cast pot, usually with three legs and two ears. Boiling, boiling water. Dingboo, which originally means that the water in the pot boils and makes a sound, now refers to the noisy voices of the crowd, just like a boiling pot.

ExampleThe square was already abuzz with the sound of people.

Near synonyms people and horses shouting, deafening, noisy, lively, bustling, people shouting and horses neighing, noisy

Antonyms ten thousand voices are silent, silent, silent

Usage subject-predicate tense; as predicate, object,; simile of a noisy crowd

From Feng Menglong, "Awakening the World to HengYan," Volume Ten, Ming Dynasty: "In the afternoon of one day, Liu Fang was tidying up in the store, only to hear the sound of people."

4, People's Mountains and People's Seas

Pinyin rén shān rén hǎi

Interpretation Crowds of people are like mountains and seas. It describes a very large gathering of people.

Origin Xihu Elder's Record of Prosperous Victories: "Four mountains and four seas, three thousand and three hundred, the mountain of clothes and the sea of clothes, the mountain of trigrams and the sea of trigrams, the south mountain and the south sea, the mountain of people and the sea of people." Ming Shi Naian "Water Margin" 51: "Every day there is that general playing loose, or theater dance, or playing, or singing, earn that price of the mountains of people to see."

Used in conjunction; as predicate, complement, determiner, object; used in public **** places

Example Qu Qiubai's "History of the Heart of Chidu": "From afar, I saw ~, all kinds of flags beckoning to the wind."

Near synonyms: endless streams of people, crowded, boisterous, endless streams of people, crowded, people coming and going, ten thousand people empty alleys, stroking arms and fists, rubbing fists and palms

Antonyms: deserted, uninhabited, rare

5, People Coming and Going

Pinyin rén lái rén wǎng

Explanation: People were coming and going in a continuous stream. It also describes busy socializing. 

Origin Qing - Cao Xueqin, A Dream of Red Mansions (红楼梦)第110回:"They have been coming and going for the past two or three days, and I can't see how they can take care of them, so I guess you haven't ordered them to do so." 

ExampleThere is no way to concentrate in this ~ place. 

Use as predicate, determiner; referring to people constantly.

6, People Cheer and Horses Shout

Pinyin rén huān mǎ jiào

Explanation People are shouting and horses are neighing. Describe the clamor.

Origin Ming Ling Mengchu, "Two Scores of Patterns", Volume 14: "I could only hear the clamor outside, and it seemed that there was the sound of people shouting and horses neighing, gradually approaching the front hall."

Example fields ~, a harvest scene.

7. lively

Pinyin

Explanation Describe very lively. Example: The National Day is approaching, and Chang'an Street is ~.

Lively: crowded and cheerful: Lantern Festival, the streets are very lively | lively fair. ② crowded and cheerful scene: watch the fun.

Extraordinary: more than ordinary; unusual: ~ organization | lively market ~.

Where: "lively and extraordinary" that is, "unusual lively". The word "ordinary" means "general, common".

Near synonyms: "the city is full of people"

Antonyms: "the city is full of people"

Antonyms: "the city is full of people"

8, "Hot Fire Toward Heaven"

Pinyin rè huǒ cháo tiān

Explaining that the mass activity is warm in mood and the atmosphere is soaring, as if hot flames burned toward the sky.  

ExampleBut the hot campaign to join the army these days has also hit them physically and mentally. (Feng Deying, "Spring Flowers", Chapter 9)

Near synonyms like blazing fire, steaming heat, ten thousand horses galloping

Antonyms deadly dull

Usage subject-predicate tense; used as a determiner, dative, or complementary; with a positive connotation.

From Wei Wei's "Who are the Loveliest People-Forward the Motherland": "From the motherland to North Korea, I saw on the one hand hot construction, and on the other hand battles fought in the midst of artillery fire."

9,趋之若鹜

Pinyin qū zhī ruò wù

Explanation趋:快走;鹜:野鸭。 Running past in flocks like ducks. (derogatory) A metaphor for many people scrambling after bad things. --(Modern Chinese Dictionary, Fifth Edition)

Example Qing - Zheng Guanying, "Shengshi Guanyin - Technique": "Those who are on top of the people, use the word fame and fortune to gallop to make the world go by, and the people of the world tend to rush after them."

Near synonyms like flies chasing after odor, like ants clinging to a stink

Antonyms respect and distance

Usage subject-predicate tense; as predicate, determiner; with a pejorative connotation.

From Ru Xun is also capable of poetry, and the scholar tends to rush to him, and the guest seats are often full. ---------《明史-萧如薰传》

10、前呼后拥

Pinyin qián hū hòu yōng

Interpretation: In the front, someone yells to open the way, and in the back, there are some people who surround and escort them. It mostly describes the sound of officials on patrol in the olden days.

Example: "The camels, as if they had discovered some ominous sign, mooed anxiously and ~ disorganized the ranks." (Feng Lingshi, "The Mysterious Sombrero")

Near synonym fore-call and back-call, one-call and one-call

Antonym light-carrying

Usage conjunctive; used as predicate, object, and gerund; pejorative; used of the powerful and the wealthy, etc.

From Yuan-Wu Ming's "Earning Kuai Tong" (赚蒯通)第二折:"Think of how much honor there is in being an official with his front and back, and being clothed in light clothes and riding in fat!"

11、Mo shoulder rubs the heel

Pinyin mó jiān cā zhǒng

Interpretation heel, heel. It describes a crowded place with many pedestrians coming and going.

Example The street is bustling with people coming and going, rubbing shoulders and heels.

Near synonyms: shoulder-to-shoulder, waterlogged

12, Menting Ruoshi

Hanyu Pinyin mén tíng ruò shì Menting Ruoshi

Words Explanation The doorway and the courtyard were bustling with activity as if they were a marketplace. It describes a large number of people who are socializing and coming and going.

Chinese Characters Explanation Men: the palace gate, the door of the house; Ting: the court, the courtyard; Ruo: as if; Shi: the bazaar, the market.

Chinese idiom nature positive, partial formal.

Idiomatic Usage subject-predicate tense; as predicate and determiner.

Near synonyms carts and horses, carts and horses, crowds of people, shoulder to shoulder

Antonyms door to door, door to court

From from "Strategies of the Warring States - Qi Ce I": "At the beginning of the decree, when the group of ministers advanced to give their advice, the door to court was as if it were a market."

13, luò yì bù jué.

Usage in combination; as predicate, determiner, dative; with positive connotation.

Explanation绝:断。 Lianxie: back and forth, continuous. It describes the continuous flow of cars, ships, people, and so on, back and forth.

Near meaning continuous, endless flow, constant flow, shoulder to shoulder

Anti sense of door can be sparrows, rare, the family cold

Example of the Houhan Book - East China Sea King Liu jiang biography: "Empress Dowager, His Majesty, compassion for the minister jiang, touched by the hair of the center, a number of envoys too medical doctors, the Prime Minister Fang Shu Daojiu, an unending stream of. "

Originally from the Southern Song Dynasty - Fan Ye "Later Han Book - South Xiongnu Biography": "Scurrying away to the plug, an endless stream of people."

14, 结驷连骑

Pinyin jié sì lián qí

Explanation 驷: anciently, the four horses harnessed to a carriage; 骑: a person who rides a horse. The entourage, carriage and horses were numerous. It describes a grand presence.

Example Ming Li Zhi, "Chutan Collection - Couple II": "Today for the phase, tomorrow ~, food square in front."

From "The Records of the Grand Historian - Zhongni's Disciples": "Zigong phased Wei, while teaming up and riding, rows of quinoa and patchouli, into the poor, over Xie Yuanxian."

15、座无虚席

Pronunciation zuò wú xū xí

Index: empty. The seat: seat. There are no empty seats. It generally describes the audience, listeners, or a large number of people attending or participating.

Usage subject-predicate tense; as predicate, object, determiner, clause; with positive connotation; referring to many people.

Near synonyms Jizi full of people

Antonyms few, nothing, empty

Lantern Puzzle full of people

16、接踵而来

Pronunciation jiē zhǒng ér lái

Explanation People come one after another, one after another, one after another, one after another, one after another. It describes that there are a lot of people coming in an endless stream.

Originally from Song History - Li Xianzhong's Biography: "Entering the city, he announced his moral intentions without killing a single person, and those who returned to the Central Plains followed one after another."

ExampleThe whole "new rice bowl" has not been found for a while, but the little things are ~. ★ Zou Taofen, "Experience - The Problem of the New Rice Bowl"

Near synonyms: one after another, in an endless stream

Usage as predicate, determiner; referring to coming one after another

Grammar paraphrase

17, Jǐ Jǐ Yī Táng

Pronunciation jǐ jǐ yī táng

Interpretation jǐ jǐ yī táng

Explanation Jǐ Jǐ Jī Táng: describes the large number of people who are talented. Describe the hall as crowded with people. Describe a large number of people.

Origin Shangshu ˙Dayumu: "Jiji is all in one place." 

Example Duanmu Hongliang, "March Nocturne": "On the way I saw the general's wife who was just ~."

Near synonyms: a full house, a group of sages, a full house

Antonyms: a scattering, a parting of the ways

Usage: Formal; Predicative; Positive

18, Household Limit for Wearing Out

Pronunciation hù xiàn wéi chuān

Explanation: Household Limit: Threshold; For: Being. The thresholds are stepped through. It describes that there are a lot of people coming in and out.

Source Tang - Zhang Yanyuan, "The Essentials of Dharma Books": "Zen Master Zhiyong lived in Yongxin Temple in Wu Xing, and those who came to look for books were like the city, and the household limit of the house they lived in was pierced through the cave."

Examples of famous word seekers from near and far, a few in ~, and the choice is harsh, low and no on. ★Qing - Wang Tao "Song Yin Man Lu - Yao Yun Xian"

Near synonyms Gate courtyard is like a city

Antonyms

Usage subject-predicate tense; as object

19, Crown and cover look at each other

Explanation Crown and cover: refers to the crown and car cover of the benevolent eunuchs, used as a pronoun for the officials; look at each other: to be visible to each other. It describes the constant flow of government envoys or officials.

From "Strategies of the Warring States - Wei Ce IV": "When Qi and Chu were about to attack Wei, Wei asked for help from Qin, and the crowns and lids looked at each other, so Qin could not save them."

Example ~ urged to enter the phase, to be the merits and virtues of the Emperor's heaven. It describes that there are a lot of officials arriving.

From Han Ban Gu's "Xidu Fugue": "The sash and coronet were raised, the crowns and lids were like clouds, and there were seven phases and five eunuchs."

Example ~, urgent detection, is a mandarin lang through also.

Ming Shen Defu, "Wanli Yowu Zhi - Record of the Former Life"

Grammar subject-predicate tense; as determiner, complementary; describing a lot of officials to the meeting

21, drink cups and chips

Pronunciation gōng chóu jiāo cuò

Explanation of the wine cups and drink chips are placed in the wrong way. It describes the lively scene when people feast and drink together. Goblet: a glass of wine.

Origin Song Ouyang Xiu's "Records of the Drunken Master Pavilion": "The shooter wins, the player wins, the goblets and chips are intermixed, and those who get up and sit down and make a lot of noise, the crowd of guests are happy."

Example Mr. Yu Da looked up to see the embroidered clothes and vermilion shoes on the Zunjing Pavilion, and the drinking and the clubbing. (清-吴敬梓《儒林外史》第四十七回)

近义词杯盘狼藉

反义词自斟自饮

用法主谓式;作谓语;用于描写酒宴

22、高朋满座

读音gāo péng mǎn zuò

Explanation高:高贵。 Noble friends filled the seats. Describe the guests as many.

Source Tang - Wang Bo, "Preface to the Tengwang Pavilion": "Thousands of miles to meet and greet, high friends fill the seats."

Example Yong ~, hearing that Charm had arrived, he fell back to welcome him. (Ming Luo Guanzhong, "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms", 40th episode)

Near synonym: guests were at the door

Antonym: the door was full of sparrows, the court was cold

Usage: Complementary; Predicate; Describing a lot of guests

23, Fenzhi Toulai

Pronunciation: fēn zhì tà lái

Explanation: Fen: much, messy; Tou: repetitive, much. Describe the arrival of a flurry of arrivals, in a continuous stream.

Origin Song - Lou Key, "<Hong Wen'an Gong Xiao Yin Jie> Preface": "The edict of Zen throne, the amnesty of the Dengji, the honorary title and the change of the Yuan and other documents all came out of Gong's hand, and they came in succession, and they responded to them calmly, and moved in line with the system."

Example: After posting the notice, he sat down in the recruiting office and saw that the young men who were recruited, ~, were overwhelmed. (高阳《清宫外史》上册)

近义词接踵而到、不绝绎,车水马龙、 熙闹

反义词门可罗雀、路断人稀

用法联合式;作谓语、定语;用于书面语

24、沸沸扬扬扬

读音 fèi fèi yáng yáng

Explanation Boiling: the way water tumbles; Yang: rising, ascending. It is as noisy as boiling water. It describes the clamor of people's voices.

Originally from "The Classic of Mountains and Seas - Western Mountain Scripture": "There is much white jade in it, and there is jade paste, and the source of it boils and boils and boils and boils."

Example Ming Shi Naian, "Water Margin", 18: "Later, I heard ~ said: 'A group of guests peddling jujubes on Huang Nigang, numbing the people with masked sweat pills, robbed the Shengchen Gang to go.'"

Near synonyms Boiling, boisterous

Opposites Crow, silent, deaf, cold

Usage Simple tense; as predicate, determiner, complement; describing the clamor of the people

25, Chuanliu xī

Pronunciation chuān liú bù xī

Interpretation Chuan: a river, a brook. Rest: stop, stop. It describes that people, carts and horses come and go like water flowing continuously.

Example Square vehicles come and go in an endless stream.

Near synonyms endless, one after another, traffic, shoulder to shoulder

Antonyms watery

Usage subject-predicate; as predicate, determiner, dative; describing a lot of people, vehicles, etc. coming and going . Generally, it is used to describe that there are a lot of people or vehicles or boats coming and going.

26、车水马龙

Pronunciation chē shuǐ mǎ lóng

Interpretation The cars are like running water, and the horses are like swimming dragons. It describes a lively scene with many vehicles and horses coming and going.

Originally from Hou Han Shu - Ming De Ma Huang Huang Ji (后汉书-明德马皇皇后纪):"Before I passed the Maodong Gate, I saw the foreigners asking for a place to live and work, the cars were like running water, the horses were like swimming dragons, the head of the barn was dressed in green, and the leader was in white, and he was not as good as the imperialists."

Example of spending days drinking and making a lot of noise, ~, the day is no sundial. ★ Qing - Wu Corns "twenty years to witness the strange present situation" the first .

Near synonyms: 门庭若市, 络不绝, 川流不息

Antonyms: 门可罗雀, 门庭冷落

Usage 联合式;作谓语、定语;形容繁华热闹的景象

27、盛况空前

Pronunciation shèng kuàng kōng qián

Explanation describes the scene of bustling bustling activity.

ExampleToday there were tens of thousands of people in the square for the National Day parade, which was really ~.

28、水泄不通

Pronunciation shuǐ xiè bù tōng

Interpretation describes crowded or surrounded very tightly.

Origin Song Shi Daoyuan (释道原), Jingde Chuanluan Deng Lu (景德传灯录), "Under the gate of Deshan, the water does not leak out." 

Example East Zhou Li Guo Zhi (东周列国志)第五回:"Five countries*** with 1,300 armored vehicles surrounded the Zhengdong Gate to the point of being impenetrable."

Near synonyms stormy, crowded, crowded.

Antonyms unobstructed, unimpeded in all directions.

Usage Partial Formal; as predicate, complement; describing a blocked road.