垂死挣扎 — Chinese idiom
垂死挣扎
chuí sǐ zhēng zhá
Traditional: 垂死掙扎
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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