成语释义旧指大规模出兵。现多指动用很多人力。兴、动：发动；众：指大队人马。
成语出处《吴子 励士》：“夫发号布令，而人乐闻；兴师动众，而人乐战；交兵接刃，而人乐死。”
感情色彩中性
成语结构联合式成语
成语用法联合式；作谓语、状语；含贬义
产生年代古代成语
近义词大动干戈大张声势
近义词小打小闹
成语例句
李劼人《大波》第一部第五章：“为啥要兴师动众，闹得这样文王不安，武王不宁的.？”
英语释义
initiate the dispatch of contingents of armed men and the mobilization of the masses；
arouse too many people to do(some relatively small work)；
draw in a lot of people(to do sth.)；
have too many people do sth.
网络英语释义
1. Out in force
2. Raise A Big Rumpus
3. xudv
4. ijfw
双语例句
1. Men athing about it and turn the most basic tasks into a very big deal.
男性则会兴师动众,把很基础的任务转化成很大型的事件.
2. This little matter does not require a lot of people to be dragged in.
为这件小事不值得兴师动众.
3. At any rate, it is a great evil to make a stir about it.
不管怎麽说, 为此兴师动众是大错特错的.