unable to swallow a bite of food or close one 's eyes in sleep

unable to swallow a bite of food or close one 's eyes in sleep

It's a Chinese idiom. The Pinyin is Q ǐ NSH í J ù f è I, which means that you don't sleep or eat. It refers to extreme anxiety or intense study and work. It's from Song Hongmai's Yi Jian Zhi Shen Jian GUI.

source

Song Hongmai's yijianzhi Shen jiangui: "in June of summer, it's really like red eyes, swelling and pain are very serious, and food and sleep are wasted."

Examples

The 45th chapter of the chronicles of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty written by Feng Menglong of the Ming Dynasty: "besides, when Qin Mugong heard that the three marshals were obtained by Jin Dynasty, he was bored and angry, and he wasted both food and sleep."