precious spring rain
Spring rain is like oil, Chinese idiom, Pinyin is ch ū NY ǔ R ú y ó U. From the biography of lanterns in Jingde.
The origin of Idioms
In Song Dynasty, Shi Daoyuan's biography of lanterns in Jingde, Volume 1: "a drop of spring rain is as slippery as oil."
Idiom usage
This is a metaphor for the scarcity of rain in spring. "Spring rain is as expensive as oil," says Xie Jin of Ming Dynasty: "it's raining all over the street. It's slipping and killing a group of cattle."
precious spring rain
be like a dry tree which again sprouts leaves in the spring - kū mù féng chūn
pretending to be wealthy and generous - chàng chóu liáng shā
My nose is flat and my lips are blue - bí tǎ chún qīng
weigh up one thing against another - quán héng qīng zhòng