climb hills and ford streams

climb hills and ford streams

It's a tough journey. Fan Jinbiao's "in memory of the beloved Premier Zhou": "for more than a year, vice president Zhou has been climbing mountains and rivers in the daytime like us

Idiom explanation

[interpretation] climbing a mountain or crossing a river is a tough road.

Idioms and allusions

[source] fan Jinbiao's "in memory of the beloved Premier Zhou": "during the Long March, vice president Zhou climbed mountains and rivers in the daytime as we did in more than a year." We arrived at the Great Wall all the way.

Discrimination of words

[synonym] crossing mountains and rivers [antonym] plain sailing [usage]: used as predicate, object and adverbial; used for crossing mountains and seas for a long way. [English]: make a life filter journey