死 死
去 去
活 活
来 來
- to hover between life and death (idiom)
- to suffer terribly
- within an inch of one's life
Examples
听闻事故，她便哭得死去活来。
Info
- Wiktionary: 死去活来
- MDBG: 死去活来
- Examples with 死去活来 on Tatoeba
- Percentile: 57 (higher is more common)
- Tags: chengyu