The origin of this idiom is the Book of Rites, one of the Confucian classics. In The Book of Rites, it is recorded that all things coexist without harming each other, and Tao is parallel without contradicting each other. . Extended data sentence:
1, although their theories hold their own words, they are actually parallel.
2. Work and play can go hand in hand to some extent.
3, people and horses and chariots are orderly and parallel.
4, this is mutually beneficial, this is parallel.
5. Unfortunately, these goals are not in parallel.
Near antonym
The synonyms of this idiom are two-pronged, inclusive, and its antonyms are, for example, irreconcilable and incompatible, in which the idiom irreconcilable means that hostile parties cannot exist at the same time.