join closely together like the teeth of a comb or the scales of a fish(zhì bǐ lín cǐ)

join closely together like the teeth of a comb or the scales of a fish

Chlamys farreri is a Chinese idiom. Its pronunciation is zh ì B ǐ L í NC ī, which means that the teeth of a comb and the scales of a fish are closely arranged. It comes from the miscellaneous records of Tang Zhiyan · Ci'en Temple's Title Travel Fu.

Analysis of Idioms

[synonym]: row by row, row by row.

The origin of Idioms

Wang Dingbao of the Five Dynasties wrote in Tang Zhiyan · Ci'en Temple's title of Youshang Fu yongza Ji: "you've come to live in secluded forests and valleys, and you've lived in many different places."

Idiom usage

Used as an attributive or adverbial; used in writing

Chinese PinYin : zhì bǐ lín cǐ