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Home / Idiom / 浪迹天涯

to roam far and wide (idiom) · to travel the world

浪迹天涯
làng jì tiān yá
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Synonyms & Antonyms
Synonyms
destitute and homeless (idiom); forced from one's home and wandering about · displaced流离失所liú lí shī suǒhomeless and miserable (idiom); to wander about in a desperate plight · to drift颠沛流离diān pèi liú líto drift about · to wander · to roam · nomadic · homeless · unsettled (e.g. population) · vagrant流浪liú làngto regard the four corners of the world all as home (idiom) · to feel at home anywhere · to roam about unconstrained · to consider the entire country, or world, to be one's own四海为家sì hǎi wéi jiāto run this way and that (idiom); to rush about busily · to bustle about · to hopscotch · also dōng pǎo xī diān东奔西走dōng bēn xī zǒuto leave one's native place, esp. against one's will (idiom)背井离乡bèi jǐng lí xiāng
Antonyms
to make one's home in a place · to settle安家落户ān jiā luò hùto live in peace and work happily (idiom)安居乐业ān jū lè yèto set up camp · Taiwan pr. ān yíng zhá zhài安营扎寨ān yíng zhā zhài
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