- mortal danger, escape alive (idiom); a narrow escape
- to survive by the skin of one's teeth
Characters
- 死 (死): to die; impassable; uncrossable; inflexible; rigid; extremely; damned
- 里 (裏): variant of 裡|里[li3]
- 逃 (逃): to escape; to run away; to flee
- 生 (生): to be born; to give birth; life; to grow; raw; uncooked; student
Resources
- Wiktionary: 死里逃生
- MDBG: 死里逃生
- Examples with 死里逃生 on Tatoeba
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