病来如山倒，病去如抽丝
bìng​lái​rú​shān​dǎo​bìng​qù​rú​chōu​sī

illness comes fast and leaves slowly

  • created sense approved 病来如山倒，病去如抽丝/病來如山倒，病去如抽絲 · bìng​lái​rú​shān​dǎo​bìng​qù​rú​chōu​sī · illness comes fast and leaves slowly — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    病来如山倒，病去如抽丝 / 病來如山倒，病去如抽絲

    bìng​lái​rú​shān​dǎo​bìng​qù​rú​chōu​sī

    illness comes fast and leaves slowly

    Sickness comes like a landslide, but goes slowly like spinning silk; an idiom used to describe how quickly one can fall ill and how long the recovery process often takes.

    病 (literal) → 病 · bìng · illness 来 (literal) → 来/來 · lái · to come 如 (literal) → 如 · rú · to be like 山 (literal) → 山 · shān · mountain 倒 (literal) → 倒 · dǎo · to fall ， (non_chinese) 病 (literal) → 病 · bìng · illness 去 (literal) → 去 · qù · to go 如 (literal) → 如 · rú · to be like 抽丝 (literal) → 抽丝/抽絲 · chōu​sī · slowly

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