披星戴月

披星戴月 [pī xīng dài yuè]

1. ■ by the light of the moon and the stars; get up by starlight and not to down tools [not knock off work] till the moon rises; go to work before dawn and when one comes home, the moon is up; go to work in the field before dawn and come home after dark; journey during the night; journey [work] under the stars and moon in the night; journey under stars and moon; make a starlit journey; toil night and day; under the canopy of the moon and the stars -- to travel by night; with stars as cloak and the moon as hat; work from before dawn till after dark:

巡道工人披星戴月地执行任务。 The trackmen work very hard from morning till dusk.