a centipede dies but never falls down(bǎi zú zhī chóng)

a centipede dies but never falls down

Baizuzhichong, a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is B ǎ iz ú zh ī ch ó ng, which means that a powerful force, though temporarily defeated, will not completely collapse soon; it also means that the remaining evils will survive after a certain evil force is destroyed. It's from Gui you yuan Chen tan.

Idiom explanation

Baizu: a kind of reptile with many nodes and feet, namely Malu.

The origin of Idioms

Xu Xuemo of the Ming Dynasty wrote in his book GUI you yuan Chen Tan: "a miser can become rich, but if he has something to do, he will become a street mouse; if he has something to do, he will break his family, but if he has something to do, he will become a hundred legged insect."

Idiom usage

It is used as object and attributive to describe bad forces. Examples in the treatise on the Six Dynasties by Cao Peng, Wei of the Three Kingdoms: "a hundred legged insect is not rigid until death, and many people will help it. Gao Yang's the complete biography of Hu Xueyan, Hongding merchant: "I also know that the caohang gang in Songjiang is' die but not stiff ', and they don't want to do much."

Chinese PinYin : bǎi zú zhī chóng