







进旅退旅 is a Chinese idiom (chengyu) meaning “to follow the crowd or go with the flow, lacking one's own opinions or initiative; to be unassertive and simply move forward or backward with everyone else”. Literally, “Advance with the multitude, retreat with the multitude”.

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Open the tool →进旅退旅 (jìn lǚ tuì lǚ) is a Chinese idiom (chengyu) meaning “to follow the crowd or go with the flow, lacking one's own opinions or initiative; to be unassertive and simply move forward or backward with everyone else”.
进旅退旅 is pronounced jìn lǚ tuì lǚ in Mandarin Chinese.
Literally, 进旅退旅 means “Advance with the multitude, retreat with the multitude”. It is used to mean “to follow the crowd or go with the flow, lacking one's own opinions or initiative; to be unassertive and simply move forward or backward with everyone else”.
旅:共,同。与众人一起进退。形容跟着大家走,自己没有什么主张。