- a day drags past like a year (idiom); time hangs heavy
- time crawls when one is wretched
Characters
- 度 (度): to pass; to spend (time); measure; limit; extent; degree of intensity; degree (angles, temperature etc); kilowatt-hour; classifier for events and occurrences
- 日 (日): abbr. for 日本[Ri4 ben3], Japan
- 如 (如): as; as if; such as
- 年 (年): surname Nian
Resources
- Wiktionary: 度日如年
- MDBG: 度日如年
- Examples with 度日如年 on Tatoeba
Examples
对计算机人员来说，断网的时候度日如年。
俗話說：光陰似箭；可俗話又說：度日如年！
和某些人相处一室使我度日如年。