死里逃生 — Chinese idiom
死里逃生
sǐ lǐ táo shēng
Traditional: 死裡逃生
Meaning
- mortal danger, escape alive ; a narrow escape
- to survive by the skin of one's teeth
Character by character
- 死sǐdead; death; impassable, inflexible
- 里lǐunit of distance equal to 0.5km; village; lane
- 逃táoto abscond, to dodge, to escape, to flee
- 生shēnglife, lifetime; birth; growth
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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