随大溜

隨大溜

suídàliù

verb HSK 7-9

Meanings

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.

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.

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