a life-and-death struggle
The Chinese idiom, Pinyin is y ú s ǐ w ǎ ngpॸ, which means that the fish is dead or the net is broken; it means to fight to death. From Scene 5 of azalea mountain.
The origin of Idioms
"Azalea mountain" Scene 5: "he is a net fishing, I also spell his death net broken."
Idiom usage
[example] I will not look back even if I am caught dead.
a life-and-death struggle
Raise children for the old, save grain for hunger - yǎng ér dài lǎo,jī gǔ fáng jī
The mountain passes through the stone - shān liù chuān shí
It's none of your business - shì bù guān jǐ,gāo gāo guà qǐ