铺天盖地 [鋪天蓋地] - lit. hiding the sky and covering the earth (idiom); fig. earth-shattering, omnipresent, of universal importance - pū tiān gài dì | Definition | ChinesePod.com

铺天盖地 (鋪天蓋地)

pū tiān gài dì

Pinyin

Definition

铺天盖地 (鋪天蓋地)

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pū tiān gài dì

lit. hiding the sky and covering the earth (idiom); fig. earth-shattering
omnipresent
of universal importance

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

jīn tiān

1 today
2 at the present
3 now

de

1 -ly
2 structural particle: used before a verb or adjective, linking it to preceding modifying adverbial adjunct

dì zhǐ

1 address
2 classifier: 个 gè

dì fāng

1 region
2 regional (away from the central administration)
3 local

tiān

1 day
2 sky
3 heaven

Idioms (20)

一人得道，鸡犬升天

yī rén dé dào , jī quǎn shēng tiān

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

yī ge tiān nán , yī ge dì běi

1 to live miles apart (idiom)

一败涂地

yī bài tú dì

1 failed and wiped over the floor (idiom); to fail utterly
2 a crushing defeat
3 beaten and in a hopeless position

一柱擎天

yī zhù qíng tiān

1 lit. to support the sky as a single pillar (idiom)
2 fig. to take a crucial responsibility upon one's shoulders

一步登天

yī bù dēng tiān

1 reaching heaven in a single bound (idiom); (esp. with negative: don't expect) instant success

Sample Sentences

这倒也是。还没到过节，各种月饼的促销广告就已经铺天盖地，中秋节也成了各大商场的月饼大战，反而忽略了过节本身的意义。

zhè dào yě shì 。hái méidào guòjié ，gèzhǒng yuèbǐng de cùxiāo guǎnggào jiù yǐjīng pūtiāngàidì ，zhōngqiūjié yě chéng le gè dà shāngchǎng de yuèbǐng dàzhàn ，fǎnér hūlüè le guòjié běnshēn de yìyì 。

True...even before the festival, ads for different kinds of moon cakes are all over the place. Mid-Autumn Festival has also become a battlefield for malls selling moon-cakes, and in fact we've lost sight of the original meaning of the holiday.