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积案
jī'àn

long-pending case

Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents
  • 积案如山 jī'àn​rú​shān backlog of cases piled high like a mountain
    Used to describe a situation where a vast number of official documents or legal cases have been left unhandled for a long time, forming a pile as high as a mountain.