Shoulder to shoulder
Yajiandiebei, a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is y à Ji à NDI é B è I, which means shoulder to shoulder, back to back; it describes crowded people. From the outlaws of the marsh.
The origin of Idioms
The 23rd chapter of Water Margin by Shi Naian of Ming Dynasty: "when Wu Song looked at it from the sedan chair, he saw that there were many people on his shoulders, making a lot of noise, blocking the streets and alleys, all of them came to see the insects."
Idiom usage
It is used as predicate, attributive and adverbial to describe crowded people. The people in the street were huddled shoulder to shoulder.
Chinese PinYin : yà jiān dié bèi
Shoulder to shoulder
run away when going into battle. lín zhèn tuō táo
each man fight all by himself. rén zì wéi zhàn
act in a way that defeats one 's purpose. nán yuán běi zhé
Make use of nature and place. yòng tiān yīn dì
like a square tenon for a round mortise ---- at variance with each other. yuán záo fāng ruì