Dead bones and raw meat
As a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is k ū g ǔ sh ē NgR ò u, which means bring the dead back to life. It's good medicine. It's also like saving something that has no hope. It comes from the biography of Yu Zhongwen in the book of Sui Dynasty.
The origin of Idioms
According to Yu Zhongwen's biography in the book of the Sui Dynasty, "if you are willing to cry for Gu's kindness, bring down clouds and rain, pursue the beginning of ignorance, and record a trickle of achievements, you will be even more desolate and withered."
Idiom usage
As an object or attribute; used to save a crisis
Analysis of Idioms
To bring the dead back to life
Dead bones and raw meat
a minister without support at court and a prince born of a concubine fallen from grace - gū chén niè zǐ