死到临头 — Chinese idiom
死到临头
sǐ dào lín tóu
Traditional: 死到臨頭
Meaning
- Death is near at hand.
Character by character
- 死sǐdead; death; impassable, inflexible
- 到dàoto go to, to arrive
- 临línto draw near, to approach; to descend
- 头tóuhead; chief, boss; first, top
Idioms sharing a character
- 不知死活 bù zhī sǐ huó
- 九死一生 jiǔ sǐ yī shēng
- 你死我活 nǐ sǐ wǒ huó
- 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
- 客死异乡 kè sǐ yì xiāng
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