refuse to admit even unto death
In Chinese, the Pinyin is sh ǐ K ǒ UD ǐ L à I, which means to say yes, but not to admit it. From Hua Sha.
The origin of Idioms
Yushun was startled and quickly denied that there was no such thing. The first chapter of Ye Zhaoyan's Huasha
Discrimination of words
Synonyms: deny, insinuate; same rhyme words: happy to win, natural workers and people's generation, speculation and sale now, disheartened and succumbed, thousands of Jiao and thousands of state, husband's nepotism, setting up camp, uncovering debts and paying off debts, not letting go of debts, dragging and pulling
Idiom usage
As a predicate or attributive; used in spoken English
refuse to admit even unto death
You can't see it, you can't hear it - shì zhī bù jiàn,tīng zhī bù wén