Idiom
people mountain people sea
Meaning
crowded or jam-packed with people
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“The city center is people mountain people sea today.”
“We could hardly walk through the festival because it was people mountain people sea.”
“Upon arriving at the popular tourist destination, we found the plaza was people mountain people sea, leaving us no choice but to seek a quieter path.”
Examples
simple
“The city center is people mountain people sea today.”
contextual
“We could hardly walk through the festival because it was people mountain people sea.”
complex
“Upon arriving at the popular tourist destination, we found the plaza was people mountain people sea, leaving us no choice but to seek a quieter path.”
Origin
A direct calque of the Chinese idiom 人山人海 (rénshānrénhǎi). The expression entered English as a literal rendering of the individual characters for people, mountain, and sea to describe a vast multitude.
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