To get concert tickets, everyone used whatever tricks they had: some queued, some got friends to help.
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A Buddhist term for the supernatural powers that buddhas and arhats gain through meditation, such as seeing far or flying. Novels like 西游记 gave it to gods and demons, and today it also praises anyone unusually capable.
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Two common idioms: 神通广大, 'having vast powers', often said of someone with amazing connections, and 各显神通, 'each shows what they can do'.
