repeatedly attempt suicide(xún sǐ mì huó)

repeatedly attempt suicide

Looking for life and death, a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is x ú ns ǐ m ì Hu ó, which means fighting for life and death. It's more of a suicide scare. From the money pool.

Idiom explanation

Seek: seek, seek.

The origin of Idioms

The second fold of Yuan Dynasty Guan Hanqing's "money pool" is: "it's only for Du ruiniang that he treats me wholeheartedly. He often cooperates with this godmother and seeks for life and death. It's only for my family's sake."

Idiom usage

In a derogatory sense, it means to frighten people with suicide. The first fold of Yuan Wu Ming's Yan'an Mansion: "an old man, you are looking for life and death like this. If you have any injustice, you can tell me." Feng Menglong of the Ming Dynasty (Volume 6): until the evening, when there was no money around to pay back wine money, they let the scoundrels go, searching for life and death, and hanging themselves. Chapter 25 of a dream of Red Mansions: "once Baoyu takes a knife and sticks, and seeks for life and death, the world turns upside down." The 80th chapter of a dream of Red Mansions written by Cao Xueqin in Qing Dynasty: "although he did not dare to fight back, he would also fight for life and death." Chapter 120 of a dream of Red Mansions: "if you say you want to let him out, I'm afraid he won't want to. He'll have to look for life and death."

Chinese PinYin : xún sǐ mì huó