a life-and-death struggle
The Chinese idiom, Pinyin is y ú s ǐ w ǎ ngpॸ, which means that the fish is dead or the net is broken; it means to fight to death. From Scene 5 of azalea mountain.
The origin of Idioms
"Azalea mountain" Scene 5: "he is a net fishing, I also spell his death net broken."
Idiom usage
[example] I will not look back even if I am caught dead.
Chinese PinYin : yú sǐ wǎng pò
a life-and-death struggle
tragic story of ancients driven by hunger " to eat the flesh of each other 's son. yì zǐ ér shí
give a pleasant smile of a woman. yān rán yī xiào
have food spread out ten feet square -- live in luxury. shí wèi fāng zhàng