Idioms include surviving from desperate situations, finding fish out of desperate situations, escaping from death, surviving from a tiger's mouth, and surviving from death, etc.:

1. Survive from desperate situations

1. Pinyin: jué chù féng shēng

2. Definition: Describes finding hope in desperate situations.

3. Source: Ming Dynasty Feng Menglong's "Yu Shi Ming Yan": I was so happy to be saved from a desperate situation, I met an old man carrying a staff. (Translation: Fortunately, I found hope in a desperate situation and saw an old man walking towards me with a cane.)

2. A fish out of dry soil

1. Pinyin: hé yú dé shuǐ

2. Interpretation: A fish in a dry rut gets water, which is a metaphor for surviving in a desperate situation and having something to rely on.

3. Source: "New Book of Tang·Qibi Heli Biography" co-authored by Song Qi, Ouyang Xiu and others in the Northern Song Dynasty: Some slanderous emperors say that Heli enters Yantuo, like a fish that has dried up and finds water. (Translation: Some people slandered the emperor and said that Heli entered Yantuo, like a dried fish getting water, it has something to rely on.)

3. Escape from death

1. Pinyin: sǐ lǐ táo shēng

2. Definition: It means to escape from an extremely dangerous situation and survive death.

3. Source: "The Romance of the West Chamber" by Wang Shifu of the Yuan Dynasty: Half a million thieves were swept away by the floating clouds, and my family narrowly escaped death. (Translation: Five thousand enemies swept away our side like rolling clouds in a moment. My family and the children escaped from an extremely dangerous situation and survived.)

4. Survival from the tiger's mouth

1. Pinyin: hǔ kǒu yú shēng

2. Interpretation: Escape from the tiger's mouth, which is a metaphor for surviving a great danger.

3. Source: Zhuangzi in the Warring States Period, "Zhuangzi Robber Zhi": Confucius said: "However, Qiu said that he was not sick and was moxibustion himself. He quickly picked up the tiger's head and braided the tiger's beard, which almost inevitably resulted in the tiger's mouth. "(Translation: Confucius said: "That's it. What I did was really like pricking acupuncture on my own when I wasn't sick. I was asking for trouble. I rushed to tease the tiger's head and braid the tiger's beard, and almost inevitably got swallowed by the tiger's mouth. Ah! )

5. Survival from death

1. Pinyin: sǐ zhōng qiú shēng

2. Meaning: struggling to survive. /p>

3. Source: "The Book of the Later Han·Gongsun Shu Zhuan" compiled by Fan Ye of the Southern Dynasties: If a man wants to survive in death, how can he just sit in poverty! (Translation: A man should struggle hard to survive, should he just sit and wait for death? )

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