要死不活

yàosǐbùhuó
  1. half dead
  2. more dead than alive

CEDICT

形容病得很嚴重快要死亡或毫無生氣

維基詞典

Entry Composition

1 要死 yàosǐ
  1. extremely
  2. awfully
2 不活 bùhuó
  1. (Internet slang, euphemistic) unalive (dead)
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see 不, 活.
  3. unalive (dead)

Related entries

半死 bànsǐ
  1. half dead (of torment, hunger, tiredness etc)
  2. (tired) to death
  3. (terrified) out of one's wits
  4. (beaten) to within an inch of one's life
  5. (knock) the daylights out of sb