鱼死网破 — Chinese idiom

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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