Sit back and die

Sit back and die

Chinese vocabulary, Pinyin is ā nzu ò D à IB ì, meaning to sit and wait for death; refers to not actively think of ways, sit and wait for death. It's from burning books and restoring Deng Dingshi.

The origin of Idioms

Li Zhi of the Ming Dynasty wrote in burning books and restoring Deng Dingshi: "it is only because the world has no talent and skills, or has talent and skills, and they are afraid of the interests of the body, so they try every means to avoid them. Therefore, they ignore them and wait for their death."

Idiom usage

To sit and wait to die.

Examples

We should be active and enterprising, and we should not sit still and wait for death.