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As a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is sh ā oz ò NGJ í sh ì, which means that it disappears after a little relaxation. Time or opportunity is easy to pass. It comes from the record of Yanzhu in Yuandang valley.

Idiom usage

Contraction type; used as predicate or attribute; used of time or opportunity

Examples

Everything changes. The 34th chapter of the popular romance of the Republic of China

Time ~, we must seize every minute.

If we seize the opportunity and have the courage to innovate, we will be able to reach a new level of development. If we wait and see, if we hesitate and slack off, we will often miss the good opportunity and fall into passivity.

The origin of Idioms

Su Shi, Song Dynasty, wrote in Wen Yu Ke Hua Yun Dang Gu Yan Zhu Ji: "when you are upright, you can catch up with what you see. It's like a rabbit rising and falling. If you are less vertical, you will die."

Analysis of Idioms

Time flies in the pan

Antonym: protracted and far-off