It's too late to cover your ears

It's too late to cover your ears

It's too fast to cover your ears. It's a metaphor for a sudden event.

Idiom explanation

It's too fast to cover your ears. It's a metaphor for a sudden event.

Idioms and allusions

[source]: it's too fast to cover your ears. It's too sudden to be on guard. In the first chapter of Fu Jian Zai Ji in the book of Jin, it is said that "today, when you are entrusted with an important task, you can go out of Luchuan from Huguan and Shangdang. This opportunity of quick relief is so-called quick thunder that you can't cover your ears."

Discrimination of words

[pinyin code]: jlbe [usage]: attributive, clause; metaphor is fierce [English]: asden thunder clap which allow son not to time to the ears