救命稻草
jiù mìng dào cǎo
Pinyin
Definition
救命稻草
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- (one's) last straw to clutch at
- one's last hope
Character Decomposition
Idioms (20)
一命呜呼
- 1 to die (idiom)
- 2 to breathe one's last
- 3 to give up the ghost
亡命之徒
- 1 runaway (idiom); desperate criminal
- 2 fugitive
人命关天
- 1 human life is beyond value (idiom)
人生一世,草木一春
- 1 Man has but one life, grass but one spring (idiom). fig. the brevity of human existence
兔子不吃窝边草
- 1 A rabbit doesn't eat the grass by its own burrow (idiom); One shouldn't do anything to harm one's neighbors.