ne pas se bousculer au portillon

Literally, “not to jostle at the gate”.

• IPA^(key): /nə pa s(ə) bus.ky.le.ʁ‿o pɔʁ.ti.jɔ̃/, /nə pɑ s(ə) bus.ky.le.ʁ‿o pɔʁ.ti.jɔ̃/

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ne pas se bousculer au portillon

1. (figuratively, informal, of people) not to line up, not to queue up, not to crowd in, not to fall over each other (with the implied meaning that something meets with little success)

• Chiefly used in the negative.
• Often used as an impersonal verb: ça ne se bouscule pas au portillon, "people are not exactly lining up".