at the gate of death
Drowning, a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is y ā NY ā NY ī x ī, which means breathing weakly and dying. From scholars.
The origin of Idioms
Chapter 15 of scholars: "Mr. Ma Er was so surprised that he rushed upstairs to the room to have a look. He was drowned and couldn't lift his head."
Analysis of Idioms
On the verge of death
Idiom usage
As a predicate, attributive, adverbial; refers to near death.
at the gate of death
the people are plunged into an abyss of misery - mín shēng tú tàn
like a square tenon for a round mortise ---- at variance with each other - yuán záo fāng ruì
scrape the dirt off an object and make it shine - guā gòu mó hén