extremely rare (idiom); once in a blue moon

to meet (by chance); to come across

to meet by chance; to come across; (of a calendar event) to come along; (of an event) to fall on (a particular day); to fawn upon

every time; on each occasion; whenever

lit. find a stage, put on a comedy (idiom); to join in the fun; to play along according to local conditions

on the happy occasion of

to just happen to coincide with

to come across sth scary; to have a fright

to fawn on; to ingratiate oneself; (literary) to meet face to face

market day

to encounter (sth unpleasant)

Qiu Fengjia or Ch'iu Feng-chia (1864-1912), Taiwanese Hakkanese poet

to meet again after a long period of separation

lit. to strike water right and left (idiom); fig. to turn everything into gold; to have everything going one's way; to benefit from both sides

to bow down to everything sb says or does; to act submissively in order to ingratiate oneself

lit. the spring comes upon a withered tree (idiom); fig. to get a new lease on life; to be revived; (of a difficult situation) to suddenly improve

to be evenly matched; to meet one's match

see 棋逢對手|棋逢对手[qi2 feng2 dui4 shou3]

to come at the right time; to be opportune

lit. to meet face to face on a narrow path (idiom); fig. enemies or rivals meet face to face

born at the wrong time (idiom); unlucky (esp. to complain about one's fate); born under an unlucky star; ahead of his time

(idiom) to find a way to survive when everything seems hopeless

strangers coming together by chance (idiom)

(idiom) to happen to be in the right place at the right time

to tell anybody one happens to meet

misfortune turns to blessing (idiom); to turn an inauspicious start to good account

during holidays and festivals; on festive occasions such as New Year

it's a small world (idiom)

when it rains, it pours (idiom)

doubly homesick for our dear ones at each festive day (from a poem by Wang Wei 王維|王维[Wang2 Wei2])

a thousand cups of wine is not too much when best friends meet (idiom); when you're with close friends, you can let your hair down