fight to the death

fight to the death

The Chinese idiom, Pinyin is B è ICH é ngy à zh à n, which means to fight the enemy to the death under one's own city. It mostly refers to the last battle that decides one's survival. From Zuo Zhuan, the second year of Chenggong.

The origin of Idioms

"Zuo Zhuan, the second year of Chenggong:" please gather the embers and fight against the city. "

Idiom usage

Chapter 38 of the chronicles of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty by Feng Menglong of Ming Dynasty: "although Wang Shi is defeated, if you know the family members of all the officials, you can still fight against the city. How can we lightly abandon the country and entrust it to the princes? " He frowned and asked, "but what can we do?" ——Mao Dun's midnight & lt; eighteen & gt;