in the last gasp

in the last gasp

Dying, Chinese idiom, Pinyin is y ī x ī y ǎ NY ǎ n, meaning only a weak breath. It's about dying. From a dream of Red Mansions.

Analysis of Idioms

[synonym] on the verge of death, like a river of gas

The origin of Idioms

Chapter 97 of a dream of Red Mansions by Cao Xueqin in the Qing Dynasty: "the azalea, etc. look at it, only dying, knowing that they can't persuade them to come over, can only guard and shed tears."

Idiom usage

As a predicate, attributive, adverbial; refers to near death. For a long time, I shrugged my shoulders, my eyes were weeping, my nose was runny, and I died one after another. Liang Shaoren's essays on two kinds of Qiuyu nunnery in Qing Dynasty Chaozhou Yuefu