朝生暮死 zhāo shēng mù sǐ
zhāo shēng mù sǐ
set phrase
born in the morning and die in the evening
Domain: Idiom 成语
Notes: An allusion to how brief life is (Guoyu '朝生暮死'; Mathews 1931 '朝生暮死', p. 26)
Word is mentioned most frequently in
Truncated for common words
- 卷五十四 Scroll 54 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 1