病来如山倒，病去如抽丝

bìng lái rú shān dǎo , bìng qù rú chōu sī

Definitions

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

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Child Words of 病来如山倒，病去如抽丝

to come

to fall; to collapse; to lie horizontally

to invert; to place upside down or frontside back

to go

as

mountain; hill (CL:座[zuò])

to draw out

illness

silk

to spin silk