洛阳纸贵
洛陽紙貴Meanings
CC-CEDICT
- 1.lit. paper has become expensive in Luoyang (because everyone is making a copy of a popular story) (idiom)
- 2.fig. (of a product) to sell like hotcakes
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Wiktionary
- 1.to be all the rage for a time; to be immensely popular
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Etymology
From the incident that the Western Jin poet Zuo Si's work Rhapsodies on the Three Capitals was extremely popular that people were making copies of it, causing a shortage in paper and pushing up its price in Luoyang.
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Components
Components from cjk-decomp · MIT