寒来暑往

寒来暑往 [hán lái shǔ wǎng]

1. ■ Cold and heat succeed each other. -- as time passes; as summer goes and winter comes; as the years roll on [go by]; change of seasons; lapse of time; The cold comes and the heat departs.; the interchange of summer and winter; the vicissitudes [alteration] of the seasons; with the passage of time; year in and year out