risk one's life
Chinese idiom, Pinyin is sh ě s ǐ w à ngsh ē ng, which means to describe regardless of their own safety. It's from the mirror of lock by Wu Mingshi of Yuan Dynasty.
The origin of Idioms
The third fold of Yuan Yang Zi's yurang tuntan: "it's up to you, you're up to you, you're up to death, you're afraid of being tortured."
Idiom usage
Recently, we were bullied by a demon here and forced to occupy our water curtain cave. We are fighting with him. Wu Chengen's journey to the West in Ming Dynasty
Idiom story
Xue Rengui, a farmer of Longmen dahuangzhuang village in Yizhou, loved martial arts when he was young. He learned 18 kinds of martial arts when he was 20 years old. His parents encouraged him to sacrifice his life for his country. He said to his parents, "when the country is employing people, we should wipe out the barbarians and pacify the border areas. We should rely on your children to learn martial arts and have both wisdom and courage. If you are between the two battles, you will not succeed."
risk one's life
the whole scheme has gone to nought - dà shì qù yǐ
pour exhortations into sb . 's ear - ěr tí miàn mìng
the evil governors ruled the state - chái láng dāng tú
Be good as a man, be evil as a man - cóng shàn rú dēng,cóng è rú bēng
wish sb. will give birth to a good son - yù yàn tóu huái
change a fowling piece for a big gun - niǎo qiāng huàn pào