the sun is well up

the sun is well up

As a Chinese idiom, R ì g ā OS ā nzh à ng in pinyin means that the sun rises very high and it's late. It also describes that people get up too late. It comes from Tang Xianzu's record of Nanke in Ming Dynasty.

Idiom usage

When monk Jin and his group of fifty or sixty match factory workers arrived near the house of Zhou Zhongwei, the owner of the match factory, they were already on the rise.

Analysis of Idioms

Synonym: three strokes in the sun

The origin of Idioms

Tang Xianzu of the Ming Dynasty wrote in nankeji, a record of nankeji: "it's too high to see Liufang station. It's hateful!"

Idiom explanation

It's just like a day. It's late for the sun to rise very high. People get up too late.