迎来送往 — Chinese idiom
迎来送往
yíng lái sòng wǎng
Traditional: 迎來送往
Meaning
- lit. to meet those arriving, to send of those departing ; busy entertaining guests
- all time taken over with social niceties
Character by character
- 迎yíngto welcome, to receive, to greet
- 来láito arrive, to come, to return; in the future, late
- 送sòngto see off, to send off, to dispatch; to give
- 往wǎngto go, to depart; past, former
Idioms sharing a character
- 笑脸相迎 xiào liǎn xiāng yíng
- 迎刃而解 yíng rèn ér jiě
- 迎难而上 yíng nán ér shàng
- 迎头痛击 yíng tóu tòng jī
- 迎风招展 yíng fēng zhāo zhǎn
- 人来人往 rén lái rén wǎng
- 来之不易 lái zhī bù yì
- 来去无踪 lái qù wú zōng
- 来日方长 lái rì fāng cháng
- 来历不明 lái lì bù míng
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