卜昼卜夜 (卜晝卜夜)
bǔ zhòu bǔ yè
Pinyin
Definition
卜昼卜夜 (卜晝卜夜)
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- day and night (to toil, to abandon oneself to pleasure etc)
Character Decomposition
Idioms (20)
一个萝卜一个坑
- 1 lit. every turnip to its hole (idiom)
- 2 fig. each person has his own position
- 3 each to his own
- 4 horses for courses
- 5 every kettle has its lid
俾夜作昼
- 1 lit. to make night as day (idiom); fig. to burn the midnight oil
- 2 work especially hard
俾昼作夜
- 1 to make day as night (idiom, from Book of Songs); fig. to prolong one's pleasure regardless of the hour
夙夜匪懈
- 1 to work from morning to night (idiom)
夙兴夜寐
- 1 to rise early and sleep late (idiom); to work hard
- 2 to study diligently
- 3 to burn the candle at both ends