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病来如山倒，病去如抽丝

bìng lái rú shān dǎo , bìng qù rú chōu sī

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Definitions

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

Child Words of 病来如山倒，病去如抽丝

as

illness

to go

silk

to draw out

to fall; to collapse; to lie horizontally

to come

mountain; hill (CL:座[zuò])

to invert; to place upside down or frontside back

to spin silk