你死我活 — Chinese idiom
你死我活
nǐ sǐ wǒ huó
Meaning
- lit. you die, I live ; irreconcilable adversaries
- two parties cannot coexist
Character by character
- 你nǐyou, second person pronoun
- 死sǐdead; death; impassable, inflexible
- 我wǒI, me, my; our, us
- 活huóto exist, to live, to survive; living, working
Idioms sharing a character
- 你争我夺 nǐ zhēng wǒ duó
- 非你莫属 fēi nǐ mò shǔ
- 不知死活 bù zhī sǐ huó
- 九死一生 jiǔ sǐ yī shēng
- 兔死狐悲 tù sǐ hú bēi
- 兔死狗烹 tù sǐ gǒu pēng
- 出生入死 chū shēng rù sǐ
- 半死不活 bàn sǐ bù huó
- 厚死薄生 hòu sǐ bó shēng
- 垂死挣扎 chuí sǐ zhēng zhá
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