随波逐流 — Chinese idiom
随波逐流
suí bō zhú liú
Traditional: 隨波逐流
Meaning
- to drift with the waves and go with the flow ; to follow the crowd blindly
Character by character
- 随suíto follow, to listen to, to submit to
- 波bōwaves, ripples, breakers; undulations
- 逐zhúto pursue; to expel; step by step
- 流liúto flow, to drift, to circulate; class
Idioms sharing a character
- 俗随时变 sú suí shí biàn
- 入乡随俗 rù xiāng suí sú
- 如影随形 rú yǐng suí xíng
- 嫁鸡随鸡 jià jī suí jī
- 安闲随意 ān xián suí yì
- 形影相随 xíng yǐng xiāng suí
- 情随事迁 qíng suí shì qiān
- 紧随其后 jǐn suí qí hòu
- 萧规曹随 Xiāo guī Cáo suí
- 随口胡诌 suí kǒu hú zhōu
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