day and night
Day after day, the Chinese idiom, Pinyin is y ǐ y è J ì R ì, meaning to use the time of night to connect the day, day and night. It comes from the first knowledge of the spring and Autumn Annals of the Lu family.
Analysis of Idioms
[synonym] day and night, burn plaster after sundial, all night long, forget sleep and food
Idiom usage
"Poor families borrow books, day and night, and the ancients steal books from the market, which is almost impossible." (Wang Zun, biography of Tang gifted scholars by Xin Wenfang, Yuan Dynasty)
The origin of Idioms
Lu's spring and Autumn Annals, Xianzhi: "the custom of Zhongshan is to take day as night and day after day. Men and women should lean on each other and have no rest."
day and night
everyone , close or distant , rich or poor - qīn shū guì jiàn
the self-conceited troops are destined to fail - jiāo bīng bì bài
persistent rumours against someone can shake the strongest confidence in him - zēng mǔ tóu zhù
appoint upright and remove the crooked ones -- to replace the bad ones by good ones - jǔ zhí cuò wǎng
get together and disperse like animals and birds - shòu jù niǎo sàn