topple of an avalanche

topple of an avalanche

Back to the mountains, back to the sea, Chinese idiom, Pinyin is Hu í sh ā nd ǎ oh ǎ I, meaning to describe the power and momentum is extremely powerful, can be overwhelming. It comes from the biography of Gao Lu in the book of Wei.

The origin of Idioms

According to the biography of Gaolu in the book of Wei collected by Wei Dynasty in the Northern Qi Dynasty, "in the past, the ancestors rode hundreds of thousands of horses on foot with the power of going back to the mountains and collapsing the sea. In the south, they were near Guabu, and all the prefectures came down."

Idiom usage

It can be used as predicate and attributive; it has strong metaphorical power and can overpower everything. example it's none of your business to go back to the mountains and pour the sea. The poem titled Zhou Jianchen haozhai by Yang Wanli of Song Dynasty