挑灯夜战 — Chinese idiom
挑灯夜战
tiǎo dēng yè zhàn
Traditional: 挑燈夜戰
Meaning
- to raise a lantern and fight at night ; fig. to work into the night
- to burn the midnight oil
Character by character
- 挑tiǎoto select, to choose; picky, choosy; a load
- 灯dēnglamp, lantern, light
- 夜yènight, dark; under cover of night
- 战zhànwar, fighting, battle
Idioms sharing a character
- 挑拨是非 tiǎo bō shì fēi
- 挑拨离间 tiǎo bō lí jiàn
- 挑肥拣瘦 tiāo féi jiǎn shòu
- 目挑心招 mù tiǎo xīn zhāo
- 吹灯拔蜡 chuī dēng bá là
- 张灯结彩 zhāng dēng jié cǎi
- 灯红酒绿 dēng hóng jiǔ lǜ
- 三更半夜 sān gēng bàn yè
- 俾夜作昼 bǐ yè zuò zhòu
- 夙夜匪懈 sù yè fěi xiè
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