await one's doom

await one's doom

Sit and wait for death, Chinese idiom, Pinyin is Zu ò y ǐ D à IB ì, meaning to sit and wait for death, describes in extreme difficulties, not actively find a way. It comes from Zhuge Liang's model of later generation in Shu of the Three Kingdoms.

The origin of Idioms

Zhuge Liang's "Houchu Shibiao" in the Three Kingdoms States States: "if you don't attack the thief, the king's career will also die, but if you sit and wait for the death, which one is the best."

Idiom usage

It has a derogatory meaning. Where there is oppression, there is resistance. The people will not wait to die.

Analysis of Idioms

[synonym] be ready to die, be doomed, be doomed [antonym] Liu Yinhua Ming