float upon the clouds
As a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is Q ī ngxi ā ozh í sh à ng, meaning to rise to a high position quickly. It comes from Song Dynasty Liu Kezhuang's "sending Hong Shiyu".
Idiom explanation
Rapid rise to a high position. It is the same as "the rising clouds".
The origin of Idioms
One of the poems of Liu Kezhuang in Song Dynasty is to send Hong Shiyu: "it is easy to climb up the ladder from the sky, but it is difficult to build an iron wall with a white head."
Analysis of Idioms
Near synonym: the rising clouds
Idiom usage
It refers to the position of a person
float upon the clouds
suffer from an unrighted wrong or grievance - fù qū hán yuān
fallen leaves return to the roots -- to revert to one 's origin - luò yè guī gēn
It's easy to change, but hard to change - jiāng shān hǎo gǎi,běn xìng nán yí