all through the night

all through the night

All night, a Chinese idiom, pronounced t à ngxi à OD á D à n, means a whole night, from dark to dawn. It comes from the book of the Northern Qi Dynasty.

Examples

Last night, School B burned all the books in Chihua. Lu Xun's Hua Gai Ji sequel: the flowerless rose 3

The origin of Idioms

The fourth volume of wenxuanji in the book of the Northern Qi Dynasty: "or bow to encourage oneself, sing praises endlessly, from day to night, night after day."