累死累活
lèi sǐ lèi huó
Pinyin
Definition
累死累活
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- to tire oneself out through overwork
- to work oneself to death
Character Decomposition
Related Words (20)
- 1 to die
- 2 impassable
- 3 uncrossable
- 4 inflexible
- 5 rigid
- 6 extremely
- 7 damned
- 1 to live
- 2 alive
- 3 living
- 4 work
- 5 workmanship
- 1 life
- 2 activity
- 3 to live
- 4 livelihood
- 1 to accumulate
- 2 to involve or implicate (Taiwan pr. [lèi])
- 3 continuous
- 4 repeated
Idioms (20)
不到黄河心不死
- 1 lit. not to stop until one reaches the Yellow River (idiom)
- 2 fig. to persevere until one reaches one's goal
- 3 to keep going while some hope is left
不是鱼死就是网破
- 1 lit. either the fish dies or the net gets torn (idiom)
- 2 fig. it's a life-and-death struggle
- 3 it's either him or me
不知死活
- 1 to act recklessly (idiom)
不要在一棵树上吊死
- 1 don't insist on only taking one road to Rome (idiom)
- 2 there's more than one way to skin a cat
九死一生
- 1 nine deaths and still alive (idiom); a narrow escape
- 2 new lease of life