blot out the sky and cover the sun(zhē tiān gài rì)

blot out the sky and cover the sun

It means to cover the sky and the sun. It is used to describe things with huge volume, large quantity, grand momentum or flourishing growth, and it mostly refers to trees. Source: Meng Haoran's "Stone Mountain cypress": "when I see that I am going to enter another river, I am suddenly blocked by a big mountain which covers the sky and the sun."

Idiom explanation

Cover the sky and the sun. It is used to describe things with large volume, large quantity or grand momentum. Example: in the sky, fifty or sixty enemy planes came rumbling, like birds all over the sky. The 15th chapter of Fu Hu Ji by Yuan Jing

Discrimination of words

Usage: as predicate, attributive, adverbial; used in spoken English; synonym: block the sky, block the sun

Idioms and allusions

Source: Haoran's "Stone Mountain cypress": "when I see that I want to enter another river, I am suddenly blocked by a big mountain which covers the sky and the sun."

Chinese PinYin : zhē tiān gài rì