Let the night be the day

Let the night be the day

As a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is B ǐ y è Zu ò zh ò u, which means to use night as day, day and night. It comes from the biography of Li wa in the bamboo slips of Bai Xing in Tang Dynasty.

Analysis of Idioms

Synonym: day and night

Idiom usage

The slave urged him to take care of everything in order to devote himself to learning and to work day and night. Xu Lin, Ming Dynasty

The origin of Idioms

In the biography of Li WA, a bamboo slips written by Bai Xing in Tang Dynasty, it is said that "Si Ling Sheng rejected all the worries and devoted himself to his studies in order to work hard at night."