even a drop of water couldn 't leak out(shuǐ xiè bù tōng)

even a drop of water couldn 't leak out

It's a Chinese idiom. Its pinyin is Shu ǐ Xi è B ù t ō ng. It means that even water can't flow out. It describes being crowded or surrounded tightly. From the biography of lanterns in Jingde.

Citation explanation

It's like water doesn't flow out. To describe being crowded or surrounded very closely. Shi Naian's Water Margin in the Ming Dynasty Chapter 155 song Gongming's summer treatment soldier Qiao Daoqing's return wind burns the Bandits: Zhang Qing and other generals surrounded Wanzhou. Chapter 92 of the romance of the Three Kingdoms by Luo Guanzhong of the Ming Dynasty: "recently, I heard that Zhuge Liang defeated Xia Hou he, and was trapped in Nan'an. It was so crowded that someone came out of the siege?. In the fifth chapter of Wu Jingzi's unofficial history of the scholars in the Qing Dynasty, "zhonghuizi killed his teacher because of Tangzhi County, so he made trouble and blocked the county yamen. “

The origin of Idioms

Song Shi Daoyuan's Jingde Zhuandeng Lu said, "under the door of Deshan, there is no way out."

Idiom usage

Apart from the continuous flow of donations from the post office, the enthusiastic readers who come to the door every day to make donations are also crowded. Zou Taofen's experience: social credit

Analysis of Idioms

[synonym]: rain tight, sea of people [antonym]: unimpeded, in all directions [allegorical sayings]: washing vegetables in a ladle

Chinese PinYin : shuǐ xiè bù tōng