死猪不怕开水烫
Traditional form:
死豬不怕開水燙
Pinyin (reading):
sǐzhūbùpàkāishuǐtàng
Definitions:
- lit. a dead pig doesn't fear scalding water (idiom)
- fig. a person who has nothing more to lose will go to any lengths, regardless of the consequences
Characters:
- 死 - dead; death; impassable, inflexible
- 猪 - pig, hog, wild boar
- 不 - no, not, un-; negative prefix
- 怕 - to fear, to be afraid of; apprehensive
- 开 - to open; to start, to initiate, to begin
- 水 - water, liquid, lotion, juice
- 烫 - to scald; to iron clothes or hair
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