束手待毙
Traditional form:
束手待斃
Pinyin (reading):
shùshǒudàibì
Definitions:
- to wait helplessly for death (idiom)
- to resign oneself to extinction
Characters:
- 束 - to bind, to control, to restrain; bale
- 手 - hand
- 待 - to entertain, to receive, to treat; to delay, to wait
- 毙 - to kill; to die a violent death
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