Pinyin Dictionary results for "zhi zhi si di"

置之死地
to place sb on field of death; to confront with mortal danger; to give sb no way out; with one's back to the wall; looking death in the eye; part of idiom 置之死地而後生|置之死地而后生
置之死地而后生
place sb on a field of death and he will fight to live (idiom based on Sunzi's 'The Art of War' 孫子兵法|孙子兵法[Sun1 zi3 Bing1 fa3]); to fight desperately when confronting mortal danger; fig. to find a way out of an impasse
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