生靈塗炭
simp生灵涂炭sang1 ling4 tou4 taan3shēng líng tú tàn
English
- people are in a terrible situation (idiom)
- Disaster for living souls, i.e., event resulting in mass death.
粵語 — Cantonese
- 大量嘅生命受到殘害
Examples
黑死病喺中世紀嘅歐洲搞到生靈塗炭。
Black Death caused a great amount of death in medieval Europe.
Sources: cc-cedict, rime-cantonese, words.hk