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

illness comes fast, goes away slowly

Word data

HSK Not in HSK
Frequency Unknown

Definitions

  1. 1. sickness comes like a landslide, but goes slowly like spinning silk (idiom); expect to convalesce slowly

Characters

Character Meaning
to fall ill; illness; disease
to come; to arrive; next
as; such as; as if
mountain; hill; anything that resembles a mountain
to pour; however; contrary to expectation
to fall ill; illness; disease
to go; to go to (a place)
as; such as; as if
to draw out; to remove part of the whole
silk; thread; trace