after a long lapse of time

after a long lapse of time

As a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is Ni á NSH ē NSU ì Ji ǔ, which means to describe a long time. It comes from the story of the grey appendix.

Idiom explanation

Deep: long. It's a long time.

The origin of Idioms

Yuan · Li Xingdao's the second discount of "the story of the gray appendix": "my mother received at least seven or eight children a day. I remember that when I was old."

Idiom usage

Used as an attributive or adverbial to describe a long time

Discrimination of words

Synonym: long time, long time, long time