Jyutping
zi3 zi1 sei2 dei6 ji4 hau6 sang1
Pinyin
zhì zhī sǐ dì ér hòu shēng
Definitions (CC-CEDICT)
place sb on a field of death and he will fight to live (idiom based on Sunzi's "The Art of War" 孫子兵法|孙子兵法[Sun1 zi3 Bing1 fa3]); to fight desperately when confronting mortal danger
fig. to find a way out of an impasse
Definitions (粵典–words.hk)
語句
置身喺冇退路嘅境地，迫使到只可以拚死向前，先可以求存 to confront a person with the danger of death to an extent that he will fight to live