粵

打daa2生saang1打daa2死sei2

daa2 saang1 daa2 sei2dǎ shēng dǎ sǐ

English

  1. fight to life or death; fight to the end
  2. To fight to the death, figuratively "to compete very, very hard (over something)".

粵語 — Cantonese

  1. 打架或者爭某啲嘢,爭得好激烈,好似輸咗會死咁(又或者輸咗真係有機會會死)。

Examples

  • 阿松同阿明為咗爭阿娜嘅芳心喺度打生打死。阿松重要一嘢畀阿明打暈咗。

    A-chung and A-ming are fighting intensely over A-na's heart. A-chung even got knocked out cold by A-ming.

Sources: cc-canto, rime-cantonese, words.hk

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