出处：按学科分类—语言、文字 中国对外翻译出版公司《汉英成语词典》第217页（194字）
比喻官职、地位上升得很快，例封建时代的文人要想升官发财，飞黄腾达，就得结交权贵。
One of the ways to rise fast in the official world during feudal times was to mix with the influential．