have a heart-to-heart talk after a long separation
It's a Chinese idiom. Pinyin is y è y ǔ Du ì Chu á ng, which means that relatives, friends or brothers meet for a long time and have a cordial conversation together. It's from Zhang Siye's lodging in the rain.
The origin of Idioms
Bai Juyi of Tang Dynasty wrote a poem in the rain: "if you can come and stay together, listen to the rain and sleep in bed."
Analysis of Idioms
Rain on the bed at night
Idiom usage
After a long separation, friends or brothers meet again and have a cordial conversation with each other. Song Suzhe's another sacrifice to the dead brother
have a heart-to-heart talk after a long separation
with profound respect and humility - chéng huáng chéng kǒng
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words flow from the mouth as from the pen of a master - chū kǒu chéng zhāng
scratch one 's ears and cheeks in embarrassment - zhuā ěr náo sāi
usurp a high post without doing a stroke of work - qiè wèi sù cān