fold one 's hands and await(liǎn shǒu dài bì)

fold one 's hands and await

Li à NSH à UD à IB à, a Chinese idiom, holds hands to wait for death. It's a metaphor for not actively trying to find a way in case of difficulties, sitting and waiting for failure. From Rong Zhai's continuation of Jingkang current affairs.

Idiom explanation

Death: death. Tie up your hands and wait to die. It's a metaphor for not actively trying to find a way in case of difficulties, sitting and waiting for failure.

Idioms and allusions

It was written by Hong Mai of Song Dynasty in Rong Zhai Xu Bi: current affairs of Jingkang: "Yu Qingxiu's" Jingkang Shi Lu "hurt a moment's misfortune. With a powerful nation and hundreds of thousands of Chinese and foreign soldiers, he was once unable to send a arrow to the north and get a hu. He sat upright in the capital and died with his hands tied." Where is there in the world. The 34th chapter of twenty years of prosperous dream by Huang Xiaopei in Qing Dynasty

Discrimination of words

[pinyin code]: LSDB [synonym]: hold one's hand to die [usage]: as predicate and attributive; refers to waiting for death

Chinese PinYin : liǎn shǒu dài bì