all through the night

all through the night

It's a Chinese idiom, Li á nxi à OD á D à n in pinyin, which means all night long, from dark to dawn. It's from xingshihengyan.

The origin of Idioms

The third volume of Ming Feng Menglong's Xingshi Hengyan: "those princes and grandsons come once, and they always have a few helpers. They stay up all night, and it's no trouble."

Idiom usage

Used as a predicate or adverbial; used in dealing with affairs. examples there are people who wake up after a long night's drunkenness and recover after waking up. Hu Pu'an's "records of Chinese customs · Xinjiang · customs of returning to Xinjiang"