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- the First Emperor's order to expel foreigners
- (fig.) notice to leave
- words or behavior intended at turning visitors out
Trad. 捨本逐末
- to neglect the root and pursue the tip (idiom)
- to neglect fundamentals and concentrate on details
Trad. 如蠅逐臭
- like flies pursuing a stink (idiom); the mob chases the rich and powerful
- the crowd runs after trash
Trad. 隨波逐流
- to drift with the waves and go with the flow (idiom); to follow the crowd blindly
Trad. 追風逐電
- proceeding at a tremendous pace
- getting on like a house on fire
- literal; word for word
- word by word and phrase by phrase
Trad. 逐行掃描
- line by line scanning
- progressive scanning
- lit. hunting deer in the Central Plain (idiom)
- fig. to attempt to seize the throne
Trad. 笑逐顏開
- smile spread across the face (idiom); beaming with pleasure
- all smiles
- joy written across one's face
- to ask sb to leave
- to show sb the door
- to give a tenant notice to leave
- great heroes pursue deer in the central plains (idiom); fig. many vie for supremacy
Trad. 劣幣驅逐良幣
- bad money drives out good money (economics)