上穷碧落下黄泉

Mandarin

simpl.		上穷碧落下黄泉
trad.		上窮碧落下黃泉

Etymology

• 806, Bai Juyi, Song of Everlasting Regret

  上穷碧落下黄泉

  (Searched) thoroughly up in the blue beyond (as well as) down in the Yellow Springs (below the earth).

Idiom

上穷碧落下黄泉 (simplified, Pinyin shàng qióng bìluò xià huángquán, traditional 上窮碧落下黃泉)

1. search high and low
   • 2003: 李学江 (Li Xuejiang), 人民时评：也说萨达姆被捉 (People's critique: they also say that Saddam has been captured)

     那个在美军攻占巴格达之时悄然蒸发，让十数万大军在长达8个月时间里"上穷碧落下黄泉，两处茫茫皆不见的"的萨达姆，却一直像幽灵一般困扰着占领当局.

     Saddam had disappeared into thin air shortly after the American forces took Baghdad. For eight months, he caused hundreds of thousands of soldiers to search high and low, but was no where to be found. Despite this, he continued to haunt the occupation authorities like a phantom.

References

• "上穷碧落下黄泉" (in Mandarin), Guoyu Cidian On-line Mandarin Dictionary (國語辭典). URL accessed on 2009-05-31.

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