fall backwards with hands and legs in the air(sì jiǎo cháo tiān)

fall backwards with hands and legs in the air

The Chinese idiom, s ì Ji ǎ och á OTI ā n, is used to describe falling on the back. It's also like lying down. It also describes people dying. From Shuoyue Quanzhuan.

Analysis of Idioms

Face up

Antonym: facing the Loess and back to the sky

Idiom usage

Fall on one's back

Examples

At the end of the sentence, he stood on all fours and said nothing. (the 30th chapter of Li Baojia's officialdom in the Qing Dynasty)

The origin of Idioms

It is the first time in the complete biography of Shuoyue written by Qian Cai of Qing Dynasty: "the cry has not been stopped. It was pecked by Mirs so early that it was so pitiful."

Chinese PinYin : sì jiǎo cháo tiān