死去活来
Traditional form:
死去活來
Pinyin (reading):
sǐqùhuólái
Definitions:
- to hover between life and death (idiom)
- to suffer terribly
- within an inch of one's life
Characters:
- 死 - dead; death; impassable, inflexible
- 去 - to go away, to leave, to depart
- 活 - to exist, to live, to survive; living, working
- 来 - to arrive, to come, to return; in the future, later on
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