Heaven and Earth
All of existence
Heaven and Earth, when paired, represents totality—everything that exists.
The phrase invokes the cosmic whole by naming its two fundamental domains: the sky above and the ground below.
To move heaven and earth is to do absolutely everything possible to achieve something.
Heaven and earth could not keep them apart.
The pairing appears in religious and philosophical contexts to describe all of creation.
- skyVisible overhead expanse
- groundSolid surface underfoot
- cosmosOrderly totality of existence
- soilGround matter for planting
- celestialOf the sky above
terrestrial · divine · higher power · mortal · paradise · dust · firmament · realm · creation · universe · stars · dirt · eternal · worldly · angels · pearly gates · clay · afterlife
- Lord ByronDon Juan, Manfred, Lara, Cain, The Island
- Oliver StonePlatoon, JFK, Wall Street, Natural Born Killers, Nixon
- Vietnam WarVietnam War, Vietnam, Tet Offensive, My Lai Massacre, Viet Cong
Heaven and Earthnothing
Not any thing
next to nothing · nothingness · the void · precious little · partial
Heaven and Earththe void
Complete absence of matter
nothingness · limbo · oblivion · purgatory · no man's land
Heaven and Earthnothing at all
minimal effort · going through the motions · half measures · token effort · token gesture
heaven, earth, heavens, heavenly, heavenward, earthly, earthy, earthen, earthbound