死去活来 — Chinese idiom
死去活来
sǐ qù huó lái
Traditional: 死去活來
Meaning
- to hover between life and death
- to suffer terribly
- within an inch of one's life
Character by character
- 死sǐdead; death; impassable, inflexible
- 去qùto go away, to leave, to depart
- 活huóto exist, to live, to survive; living, working
- 来láito arrive, to come, to return; in the future, late
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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