鱼死网破 — Chinese idiom
鱼死网破
yú sǐ wǎng pò
Traditional: 魚死網破
Meaning
- lit. either the fish dies or the net splits
- a life and death struggle
Character by character
- 鱼yúfish
- 死sǐdead; death; impassable, inflexible
- 网wǎngnet; network
- 破pòto break, to rout; to ruin, to destroy
Idioms sharing a character
- 如鱼得水 rú yú dé shuǐ
- 水清无鱼 shuǐ qīng wú yú
- 浑水摸鱼 hún shuǐ mō yú
- 漏网之鱼 lòu wǎng zhī yú
- 缘木求鱼 yuán mù qiú yú
- 自相鱼肉 zì xiāng yú ròu
- 葬身鱼腹 zàng shēn yú fù
- 釜底游鱼 fǔ dǐ yóu yú
- 雁杳鱼沉 yàn yǎo yú chén
- 鱼水之欢 yú shuǐ zhī huān
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