死去活來

死去活来
sǐqùhuólái
  1. to hover between life and death (idiom)
  2. to suffer terribly
  3. within an inch of one's life

CEDICT

to be devastated; to suffer terribly; to be within an inch of one's life

Wiktionary

昏死過去又醒來。形容非常痛苦或悲傷。

重編國語辭典

形容非常痛苦或悲傷

維基詞典

Entry Composition

1 死去 sǐqù to die
2 活 huó
  1. to live
  2. alive
  3. living
  4. work
  5. workmanship
3 來 lái
  1. to come
  2. (used as a substitute for a more specific verb)
  3. hither (directional complement for motion toward the speaker, as in 回來 huílai)
  4. ever since (as in 自古以來 zìgǔyǐlái)
  5. for the past (amount of time)
  6. (prefix) the coming ...; the next ... (as in 來世 láishì)
  7. (between two verbs) in order to
  8. (after a round number) approximately
  9. (used after 得 dé to indicate possibility, as in 談得來 tándelái, or after 不 bù to indicate impossibility, as in 吃不來 chībulái)

Containing this entry

哭得死去活來 kūdesǐqùhuólái to cry one's heart out
愛得死去活來 àidesǐqùhuólái to be madly in love