hardly wished to live

hardly wished to live

It's a Chinese idiom. Pinyin is t ò NGB ù y ù sh ē ng, which means you are too sad to live. Describe grief to the extreme. From diaoshuo.

The origin of Idioms

Lu Dajun of the Song Dynasty wrote in diaoshuo: "his heart of compassion and his sense of pain and illness do not want to live."

Idiom usage

The first act of Cao Yu's Peking Man: "in the lonely empty room, she remembers the long years in the future. Sometimes she is in agony and almost wants to commit suicide." Ji Yun's notes on Yuewei thatched cottage in the Qing Dynasty (Volume 11): "my elder brother Qinghu said that those who lost their beloved son in their old age could not bear to live." When master Zheng's son was in a car accident, he burst into tears and was in agony. my grandmother's death really made me sad, and I can't express my deep mourning for her in a thousand words. When Shanmei knew the news, she felt as if she had a thousand arrows in her heart. Lao Li didn't want to live in this catastrophe. after hearing the news of her son's tragic death, her mother was crying like hell.

Analysis of Idioms

Antonym: overjoyed and overjoyed