死马当活马医
Traditional form:
死馬當活馬醫
Pinyin (reading):
sǐmǎdànghuómǎyī
Definitions:
- lit. to give medicine to a dead horse (idiom)
- fig. to keep trying everything in a desperate situation
Characters:
- 死 - dead; death; impassable, inflexible
- 马 - horse; surname
- 当 - appropriate, timely; to act, to serve; the sound of bells
- 活 - to exist, to live, to survive; living, working
- 马 - horse; surname
- 医 - to cure, to heal, to treat; doctor; medicine
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