idiom > cheek-to-jaw
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Crowds
  Explanation: Shoulder bumped shoulders, feet bumped feet. Described as crowded.
  Usage: Joint type; as predicate, attributive, adverbial; describe the people for a long time
  Source: Han Liu Xiang "Warring Qi policy a": "Linzi the way, the car hit the hub, were shoulder to Morocco."
  Examples: Holiday park, the visitors ~, very crowded.
mó jiān jiē zhǒng
  Shoulder to shoulder with massage, foot and leg phase. Describe the exchanges of people, crowded
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No. 3
  In that lightning brilliant, jostling throng of Shanghai
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Shoulder suffer shoulder, foot against foot
  Shoulder suffer shoulder, foot against foot. Described as crowded. Qing Pu Noe tired "slightly Xin Geng Kui Ji": "Dec. 20, days of Shangwang Zeizhong between day and night jostling throng, food expensive, have never been." "Xinhua Digest" 1982, No. 4: " bustling, jostling throng, billowing flow should narrow streets crowded almost broken. "
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No. 5
  词 目 摩肩接踵
  发 音 mó jiān jiē zhǒng
  释 义 摩:摩擦。踵:脚后跟。 接:碰。肩碰着肩,脚碰着脚。形容人多拥挤。
  出 处 《战国策·齐策一》:“临淄之途,车毂击,人肩摩。”《宋史·李显忠传》:“入城,宣布德意,不戮一人,中原归附者踵接。”
  示 例 节日的公园里,游人~,十分拥挤。
  用 法 作谓语、定语、状语;形容人多时
  故 事 春秋时期,齐国相国晏婴奉命出使楚国,楚王存心侮辱他,不给他走正门,说齐国没人就派这个矮人来。晏婴说齐国街上的人摩肩接踵,挥汗成雨,挥袖成云。齐国的出使规矩就是无能的使臣只能去见无能的国君。楚王自取其辱,只好隆重接待。
  近义词:比肩接踵
English Expression
  1. n.:  cheek-to-jaw,  be crowded closely together,  crowd against one another,  jostle each other in a crowd
Thesaurus
crowded conditions, cheek-to-jaw, overwhelm, shoulder to shoulder follow on sb.'s heels, flow, heavy traffic, Rough Not through, hustle and bustle, abustle, head gathered and moving, coming and going busily.
Antonym
1 through 100-pass, prospect infinitude, dead hours, lead through at random, (a country) vast in territory and rich in natural resources, with much land and few people; small population for a large area; vast and sparsely populated area, Were diluted to mine, dead hours, (in) the quiet of the late night, the dead of the night deep at night, (said of a country) very large, vast land and numerous people, amplitude scope of operation, all is quiet in the dead of night, deep at night the dead of the night, Lanna people more static, Haikuo Skies, Miaowu human footmarks(或footprints), Changhang come to (a standstill/an end/light/no harm/the rescue of), move freely and continuously, esp within a closed system, Menqian snub, one can catch sparrows on the door steps of a house where visitors are few and far between, Queue, gate and courtyard snub