Breathless

Breathless

Qi Duan Sheng, a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is Q à Du à NSH à NGT à n, which means that you can't breathe out, you can't speak out; it describes extreme sadness and disappointment. It's from Liaozhai Zhiyi - promoting weaving.

The origin of Idioms

Pu Songling of the Qing Dynasty wrote in his Liaozhaizhiyi - promoting weaving: "if a cricket cage is empty, he will be breathless, and he will no longer think of his son."

Idiom usage

Used as a predicate, adverbial or attributive; used of a person's expression.