“The house leaked, but it rained all night long, and the boat was late and the wind blew” means: The house leaked, but it rained all night. The boat arrived late and caught up with the oncoming wind. "The house leaks only when it rains all night, and the boat is late and encounters a strong wind." This proverb generally means that misfortunes never come singly.
The origin of "The house leaks but it rains all night"
"The house leaks but it rains all night, and the boat is late and encounters the wind" comes from Feng Menglong's "Awakening Words". "Eternal Words to Awaken the World" contains a total of forty stories, with rich sources of themes, most of which come from folklore, historical biographies, and novels of the Tang and Song Dynasties. "Eternal Words to Awaken the World", together with "Mingyan to Awaken the World" and "Tongyan to Warn the World" published previously by the author, are collectively known as "Three Words".
"Awakening the World" is one of the "Three Words" collection of vernacular short stories compiled by Feng Menglong in the Ming Dynasty. It was published slightly after "Yu Shi Ming Yan" and "Warning Words to the World", and the collection of There are fewer vernacular short stories in the Song and Yuan Dynasties than the two books "Yu Shi Ming Yan" and "Warning Words". Most of the works are from the Ming Dynasty, and some were drafted by Feng Menglong, such as "Xu Old Servant Married a Family Out of Indignation", "Shi Runze Meets Friends at the Beach", "Bai Yu" "The Mother Endured Hardships to Become a Husband", "The Old Man in Guanyuan Meets the Fairy at Night", etc. The famous articles of "Awakening the World" include: "Bai Yuniang Endured Hardship to Become a Husband", "Amorous Zhou Shengxian in the Fan Tower", "Qian Xiucai Mistaken the Phoenix Couple" and "Qiao Prefect Randomly Ordered the Mandarin Duck Book".
Similar sentences to "The house leaks but it rains all night long"
A blind man rides a blind horse, facing a deep pool in the middle of the night.
A dragon swims in shallow water and is teased by shrimps; a tiger falls in Pingyang and is bullied by dogs.
The leakage at the bedside has nowhere to dry, and the rain has not stopped.