not to undress

not to undress

It's a Chinese idiom. Pinyin is y ī B ù Ji ě D à I, which means that you can't take off your clothes and sleep because of overwork. I don't care to untie my clothes and go to sleep. It is often used to describe nursing patients or working very hard. It comes from Pai Diao, a new account of the world.

Notes on Idioms

To untie, as of a garment.

The origin of Idioms

Liu Xiao quoted zhongxingshu in Liu Yiqing's Shi Shuo Xin Yu Pai Diao in the Southern Song Dynasty: "when Zhong Kan's father tasted the classic of disease, he couldn't take off his clothes for several years."

Idiom usage

Used as a predicate, attributive, or adverbial; used in writing.

Examples

The eighth chapter of the romance of the Three Kingdoms written by Luo Guanzhong of Ming Dynasty: "Zhuo is infected with a small disease occasionally, Diao Chan is not able to take off his clothes and flatters himself, Zhuo Xin is more and more happy."

When he saw that his father was seriously ill, he couldn't take off his clothes and waited for more than ten days. (the 40th chapter of scholars by Wu Jingzi in Qing Dynasty)

In the Western Han Dynasty, Wang Mang, who looked at the wolf with a tiger in his eyes, planned to raise his dead brother's son and served his sick uncle. He won "filial piety".