贪生怕死 — Chinese idiom
贪生怕死
tān shēng pà sǐ
Traditional: 貪生怕死
Meaning
- greedy for life, afraid of death ; craven and cowardly
- clinging abjectly to life
- only interested in saving one's neck
Character by character
- 贪tāngreedy, covetous; corrupt
- 生shēnglife, lifetime; birth; growth
- 怕pàto fear, to be afraid of; apprehensive
- 死sǐdead; death; impassable, inflexible
Idioms sharing a character
- 好酒贪杯 hào jiǔ tān bēi
- 桀贪骜诈 jié tān ào zhà
- 贪天之功 tān tiān zhī gōng
- 贪婪无厌 tān lán wú yàn
- 贪官污吏 tān guān wū lì
- 贪小失大 tān xiǎo shī dà
- 贪得无厌 tān dé wú yàn
- 贪心不足 tān xīn bù zú
- 贪求无厌 tān qiú wú yàn
- 贪污腐化 tān wū fǔ huà
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