concentrate on
Hold your breath, Chinese idiom, Pinyin is B ǐ ngq ì sh è x ī, which means to stop breathing temporarily. Describes a tense or over focused situation. It comes from the book of Shangwang pushe.
Analysis of Idioms
Hold your breath
The origin of Idioms
Lu Zhao of the Tang Dynasty wrote in the book of Shangwang pushe: "today, I don't want to meet a saint, a king and a virtuous prime minister. I take the pushe as the sun and the moon. Many scholars hold their breath."
Idiom usage
It means that people dare not go out.
Chinese PinYin : bǐng qì shè xī
concentrate on
run hither and thither like rats and wolves. shǔ cuàn láng bēn
The willows are weak and the flowers are delicate. liǔ ruò huā jiāo
Forget one's life and give up one's life. wàng shēng shě sǐ
fail when success is already in sight. shì bài chuí chéng