铺天盖地 — Chinese idiom
铺天盖地
pū tiān gài dì
Traditional: 鋪天蓋地
Meaning
- (lit.) eclipsing the sky and blanketing the earth
- (fig.) arriving in overwhelming quantities; engulfing; all-pervasive
Character by character
- 铺pūshop, store; bed, mattress
- 天tiānsky, heaven; god, celestial
- 盖gàito cover, to hide, to protect
- 地dìearth, ground, soil; land, region; structural part
Idioms sharing a character
- 平铺直叙 píng pū zhí xù
- 铺张浪费 pū zhāng làng fèi
- 一柱擎天 yī zhù qíng tiān
- 一步登天 yī bù dēng tiān
- 三天两头 sān tiān liǎng tóu
- 上天入地 shàng tiān rù dì
- 不共戴天 bù gòng dài tiān
- 不啻天渊 bù chì tiān yuān
- 不见天日 bù jiàn tiān rì
- 九天仙女 jiǔ tiān xiān nǚ
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