fold one's hands and await destruction
As a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is sh ù sh ǒ Uji ù B ì, which means to tie up your hands and wait for death. It's a metaphor for not actively trying to find a way in case of difficulties, sitting and waiting for failure. From Song Hongmai's Rong Zhai Xu Bi Jing Kang current affairs.
Idiom explanation
Death: death. Tie up your hands and wait to die. It's a metaphor for not actively trying to find a way in case of difficulties, sitting and waiting for failure.
Analysis of Idioms
Antonym: survival from the dead
Idiom usage
It refers to waiting for death.
The origin of Idioms
In Song Hongmai's Rong Zhai Xu Bi Jing Kang current affairs, "Yu Qing revised Jing Kang Shi Lu, which was a temporary disaster. He was a powerful nation with hundreds of thousands of Chinese and foreign soldiers. He was unable to shoot a arrow and get a Hu from the north, sat upright in the capital and died with his hands tied."
fold one's hands and await destruction
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