sleep the final sleep
Insomnia, Chinese idiom, Pinyin is ch á ngmi á Nb ù Q ǐ, meaning another name for death. From Taiping Guangji.
The origin of Idioms
Li Fang's Taiping Guangji of the Song Dynasty: "Zheng you passed a tomb and stood on a horse and chanted. He could not belong to the tomb for a long time. The people in the tomb continued:" there are people who have lived for a hundred years, and I don't know if they will sleep forever. "
Idiom usage
It refers to death. Chapter 65 of the popular romance of the Republic of China by Cai Dongfan: "but Ma Jizeng came to Chenzhou and couldn't sleep for a long time. After one night, he couldn't sleep for a long time. When the team officials and others came forward to call each other, his soul had gone to the underworld, and there was no sound."
Analysis of Idioms
Long time to die
sleep the final sleep
warning taken from the overturned cart in front - qián chē zhī jiàn
The whip is not as long as the horse's belly - biān cháng bù jí mǎ fù
be always in grief and prone to illness - duō chóu shàn bìng
may your family grow and prosper like spreading melonvines - mián mián guā dié
there is more what i want to say but cannot - shū bù jìn yán