俾夜作昼 — Chinese idiom
俾夜作昼
bǐ yè zuò zhòu
Traditional: 俾夜作晝
Meaning
- lit. to make night as day ; fig. to burn the midnight oil
- work especially hard
Character by character
- 俾bǐso that, in order that; to cause
- 夜yènight, dark; under cover of night
- 作zuòto make; to write, to compose; to act, to perform
- 昼zhòudaytime, daylight
Idioms sharing a character
- 三更半夜 sān gēng bàn yè
- 夙夜匪懈 sù yè fěi xiè
- 夙兴夜寐 sù xīng yè mèi
- 夜不归宿 yè bù guī sù
- 夜不闭户 yè bù bì hù
- 夜以继日 yè yǐ jì rì
- 夜深人静 yè shēn rén jìng
- 夜行昼伏 yè xíng zhòu fú
- 夜郎自大 Yè láng zì dà
- 夜阑人静 yè lán rén jìng
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