sleep the final sleep
Insomnia, Chinese idiom, Pinyin is ch á ngmi á Nb ù Q ǐ, meaning another name for death. From Taiping Guangji.
The origin of Idioms
Li Fang's Taiping Guangji of the Song Dynasty: "Zheng you passed a tomb and stood on a horse and chanted. He could not belong to the tomb for a long time. The people in the tomb continued:" there are people who have lived for a hundred years, and I don't know if they will sleep forever. "
Idiom usage
It refers to death. Chapter 65 of the popular romance of the Republic of China by Cai Dongfan: "but Ma Jizeng came to Chenzhou and couldn't sleep for a long time. After one night, he couldn't sleep for a long time. When the team officials and others came forward to call each other, his soul had gone to the underworld, and there was no sound."
Analysis of Idioms
Long time to die
Chinese PinYin : cháng mián bù qǐ
sleep the final sleep
as soon as the sun reaches the meridian it declines. rì zhōng zé zè
express the subtlety tactfully and finely. qū jìn qí miào
rapid advancement in one's career. zhí shàng qīng yún
harm the country and bring calamities on the people. rǔ guó yāng mín
Take the root and restrain the end. wù běn yì mò
a big fish in shallow water -- a ponderous apparatus without sufficient resources for maintenance. yú dà shuǐ xiǎo