随大溜

隨大溜

suídàliù

verb

Meanings

HSK 4

别随大溜，要有自己的想法。

Bié suídàliù, yào yǒu zìjǐ de xiǎngfǎ.

Don't just follow the crowd - have your own ideas.

HSK 7-9

他做事没有主见，总是随大溜。

Tā zuòshì méiyǒu zhǔjiàn, zǒngshì suídàliù.

He has no opinions of his own and always just follows the crowd.

Colloquial and slightly negative. Implies a lack of independent thinking. The more formal equivalent is 随波逐流.

memory

溜 (liù) here means 'stream/current' - going with the big (大) current (溜) of people.

随 suí

大 dà

溜 liū