steal a little leisure from the rush of business(máng lǐ tōu xián)

steal a little leisure from the rush of business

It's a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is m á NGL ǐ t ō uxi á n, which means to take some free time out of the busy. It comes from the self annotation of "eight songs of traveling to Lingshan with Chen zaihuangbo" by Chen Zao of Song Dynasty.

The origin of Idioms

In the Song Dynasty, Chen Zao's "eight poems on a tour of Lingshan with Chen zaihuangbo" notes: "Zaiyun:" we can be said to be in a hurry and enjoy ourselves in a hard time. The rhyme is eight characters. "

Idiom usage

It turns out that a Mei went to see the waterfall. The 49th chapter of Jing Hua Yuan by Li Ruzhen in Qing Dynasty

Chinese PinYin : máng lǐ tōu xián