病来如山倒,病去如抽丝 (病來如山倒,病去如抽絲)
bìng lái rú shān dǎo , bìng qù rú chōu sī
Pinyin
Definition
病来如山倒,病去如抽丝 (病來如山倒,病去如抽絲)
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- sickness comes like a landslide, but goes slowly like spinning silk (idiom); expect to convalesce slowly
Character Decomposition
Related Words (20)
- 1 to go down
- 2 to descend
- 3 to go on
- 4 to continue
- 5 (of a servant) to withdraw
- 1 to fall
- 2 to collapse
- 3 to lie horizontally
- 4 to overthrow
- 5 to fail
- 6 to go bankrupt
- 7 to change (trains or buses)
- 8 to move around
- 9 to resell at a profit
- 1 to go out
- 1 to go
- 2 to go to (a place)
- 3 (of a time etc) last
- 4 just passed
- 5 to send
- 6 to remove
- 7 to get rid of
- 8 to reduce
- 9 to be apart from in space or time
- 10 to die (euphemism)
- 11 to play (a part)
- 12 (when used either before or after a verb) to go in order to do sth
- 13 (after a verb of motion indicates movement away from the speaker)
- 14 (used after certain verbs to indicate detachment or separation)
- 1 to lose
Idioms (20)
一不做,二不休
- 1 don't do it, or don't rest (idiom); either give up, or go through to the end
- 2 Since we started, we must carry it through whatever happens.
- 3 in for a penny, in for a pound
一人得道,鸡犬升天
- 1 lit. when a man achieves the Dao, his poultry and dogs rise to Heaven (idiom)
- 2 fig. to ride on sb else's success
- 3 Once one man gets a government position, all his cronies get in too
- 4 Once sb has cracked the problem, every Tom, Dick and Harry can do it
一个天南,一个地北
- 1 to live miles apart (idiom)
一传十,十传百
- 1 news pass quickly from mouth to mouth (idiom)
- 2 an infectious disease spreads quickly (old meaning)
一则以喜,一则以忧
- 1 happy on the one hand, but worried on the other (idiom)