- lit. poultry and dogs rise to Heaven (idiom)
- fig. to ride on sb else's success
- Once one man gets a government position, all his cronies get in too
- Once sb has cracked the problem, every Tom, Dick and Harry can do it
Characters
- 鸡 (雞): fowl; chicken; CL:隻|只[zhi1]; (slang) prostitute
- 犬 (犬): dog; Kangxi radical 94
- 升 (升): to ascend; to rise to the rank of; to promote; to hoist; liter; measure for dry grain equal to one-tenth dou 斗[dou3]
- 天 (天): day; sky; heaven
Resources
- Wiktionary: 鸡犬升天
- MDBG: 鸡犬升天
- Examples with 鸡犬升天 on Tatoeba
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