take advantage of a favourable trend(shùn shuǐ tuī chuán)

take advantage of a favourable trend

Push the boat with the current, a Chinese idiom. The Pinyin is sh ù nshu ǐ Tu ī Chu á n, which means to push a boat in the direction of the current. It refers to following a certain trend or situation. From Dou E yuan.

The origin of Idioms

In Yuan Dynasty, Guan Hanqing's the injustice of Dou'e, the third fold: "heaven and earth are afraid of bullying, but they also push the boat with the current."

Analysis of Idioms

antonym

branch out

Idiom usage

As an object, attribute, adverbial; used in figurative sentences

Examples

Volume 11 of the second quarter of the book of amazing stories: "it's because he's a man of his own nature. It's not easy to stop if he keeps it and becomes a family. It's better to push the boat along the current and wait for him to go."

The fourth chapter of the strange situation witnessed in the past 20 years: "when the committee member heard what he said, he pushed the boat along with the current and blamed his subordinates a few times."

The 43rd chapter of Li Baojia's Officialdom: the people on the ship pushed the ship along the river. Before the ship was off shore, they immediately started to take his luggage to the shore and let him complain.

Lin Yutang's reading of the biography of Bernard Shaw: "Xiao had no choice but to change his attitude and push the boat with the current to provide the facts of his life."

Chinese PinYin : shùn shuǐ tuī chuán