垂死挣扎 — Chinese idiom

Meaning

• deathbed struggle
• final struggle

Character by character

• 垂chuíto hang, to dangle; to hand down, to bequeath; alm
• 死sǐdead; death; impassable, inflexible
• 挣zhēngto struggle, to strive, to endeavor
• 扎zháto bind, to wrap; to pierce; to stop

Idioms sharing a character

• 功败垂成 gōng bài chuí chéng
• 名垂青史 míng chuí qīng shǐ
• 坐不垂堂 zuò bù chuí táng
• 垂涎三尺 chuí xián sān chǐ
• 垂涎欲滴 chuí xián yù dī
• 垂帘听政 chuí lián tīng zhèng
• 垂头丧气 chuí tóu sàng qì
• 染指垂涎 rǎn zhǐ chuí xián
• 不知死活 bù zhī sǐ huó
• 九死一生 jiǔ sǐ yī shēng

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