strike terror in one 's heart
Chinese idiom, Pinyin is h ú NF ē ID ǎ NP ò, which means extremely scared. It's the same as "the soul is broken". From the history of Zen.
Idiom explanation
Explanation: it describes extreme fear. It's the same as "the soul is broken".
Idioms and allusions
[source]: the 34th chapter of the true history of Zen written by Fang Ruhao of Ming Dynasty: "Tian Longqiu heard that he was so scared that he let his horse escape."
Discrimination of words
[pinyin code]: hfdp [synonym]: scared to death, scared to death, scared to death [usage]: used as predicate, attribute, adverbial; refers to fear
strike terror in one 's heart
use one 's position to get even with another person for a private grudge - gōng bào sī chóu
one will start thinking about changes when he is in extreme poverty - qióng jí sī biàn
talk and laugh at the same time - zài xiào zài yán
not to breathe a word about a single word - zhī zì bù tí