铺天盖地 — Chinese idiom

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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