事过境迁 — Chinese idiom
事过境迁
shì guò jìng qiān
Traditional: 事過境遷
Meaning
- The issue is in the past, and the situation has changed .
- It is water under the bridge.
Character by character
- 事shìaffair, matter, business; to serve; accident, inci
- 过guòpass; to go across, to pass through
- 境jìngboundary, frontier; area, region
- 迁qiānto shift, to move; to transfer, to change
Idioms sharing a character
- 一事无成 yī shì wú chéng
- 不明事理 bù míng shì lǐ
- 事不过三 shì bù guò sān
- 事不关己 shì bù guān jǐ
- 事倍功半 shì bèi gōng bàn
- 事到临头 shì dào lín tóu
- 事半功倍 shì bàn gōng bèi
- 事危累卵 shì wēi lěi luǎn
- 事在人为 shì zài rén wéi
- 事后聪明 shì hòu cōng ming
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