neither dead nor alive
Neither dead nor alive, Chinese idiom, Pinyin is B ù s ǐ B ù Hu ó, which means dead or alive. Describe not angry or embarrassed. From Zhu Zi Yu Lei.
Analysis of Idioms
Synonym: half dead; antonym: full of vitality
Idiom usage
What are you busy shopping for? How nice it is to send me a message first, so that people can look forward to it? The third chapter of Liu e's the sequel of Lao Can's travels in Qing Dynasty
The origin of Idioms
Zhu Xi's Zhu Zi Yu Lei of Song Dynasty, Volume 48: "although Ji Zi did not die, he died again, but he was imprisoned. It's hard to deal with this position."
neither dead nor alive
beating drums and blowing trumpets - chuī chuī dǎ dǎ
search for the origin and the outcome of the development of things - yuán shǐ fǎn zhōng