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洛阳纸贵

洛陽紙貴
Luò yáng zhǐ guì

Meanings

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Luò yáng zhǐ guì
  1. 1.lit. paper has become expensive in Luoyang (because everyone is making a copy of a popular story) (idiom)
  2. 2.fig. (of a product) to sell like hotcakes

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Wiktionary

  1. 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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