clean sweep

clean sweep

Autumn leaves, Chinese idiom, Pinyin is Qi ū f ē nglu ò y è, originally refers to the autumn wind swept all the leaves, a desolate scene, now more metaphor for swept away. It comes from "on salt and iron · on Gong".

Discrimination of words

The autumn wind swept away the fallen leaves. [synonym]: autumn wind sweeping leaves, autumn wind sweeping leaves

Idiom usage

Subject predicate construction. In Han huankuan's on salt and iron, on Gong: "if a man uses wisdom to seek folly and righteousness to fight against injustice, he will fall because of the frost of autumn." "The autumn wind gives birth to the Weishui River, and the fallen leaves fill Chang'an."

The origin of Idioms

In Song Hongmai's Yi Jian Yi Zhi, Mr. Qi: "although there are no donkeys, people say that autumn wind and autumn leaves, this is true."