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to meet by chance / to come across / (of a calendar event) to come along / (of an event) to fall on (a particular day) / to fawn upon
HSK 7-9
every time / on each occasion / whenever
HSK 7-9
strangers coming together by chance (idiom)
HSK 7-9
to meet again after a long period of separation
a thousand cups of wine is not too much when best friends meet (idiom) / when you're with close friends, you can let your hair down
lit. to strike water right and left (idiom) / fig. to turn everything into gold / to have everything going one's way / to benefit from both sides
to meet (by chance) / to come across
to just happen to coincide with
lit. to meet face to face on a narrow path (idiom) / fig. enemies or rivals meet face to face
Qiu Fengjia or Ch'iu Feng-chia (1864-1912), Taiwanese Hakkanese poet
extremely rare (idiom) / once in a blue moon
to be evenly matched / to meet one's match
to fawn on / to ingratiate oneself / (literary) to meet face to face
born at the wrong time (idiom); unlucky (esp. to complain about one's fate) / born under an unlucky star / ahead of his time
misfortune turns to blessing (idiom); to turn an inauspicious start to good account
to meet again / to be reunited / reunion
lit. the spring comes upon a withered tree (idiom) / fig. to get a new lease on life / to be revived / (of a difficult situation) to suddenly improve
to bow down to everything sb says or does / to act submissively in order to ingratiate oneself
market day
(idiom) to happen to be in the right place at the right time
it's a small world (idiom)
doubly homesick for our dear ones at each festive day (from a poem by Wang Wei 王維|王维)
when it rains, it pours (idiom)
during holidays and festivals; on festive occasions such as New Year
to come at the right time / to be opportune
on the happy occasion of
(idiom) to find a way to survive when everything seems hopeless
to tell anybody one happens to meet
to come across sth scary; to have a fright
lit. find a stage, put on a comedy (idiom); to join in the fun / to play along according to local conditions
to encounter (sth unpleasant)


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