jī'àn​rú​shān

backlog of cases piled high like a mountain

  • created sense approved 积案如山/積案如山 · jī'àn​rú​shān · backlog of cases piled high like a mountain — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    积案如山 / 積案如山

    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.

    积案 (literal) → 积案/積案 · jī'àn · piles on a desk 如 (literal) → 如 · rú · to be like 山 (literal) → 山 · shān · mountain

    Changed: simplified, traditional, gloss, definition, pinyin, variant pinyin, variants, separable parts, decomposition

    created sense