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束手待毙

shù shǒu dài bì

4-character word Traditional 束手待斃

What 束手待毙 means

1. to wait helplessly for death (idiom)
2. to resign oneself to extinction

The characters in 束手待毙

• 束shùto bind; bunch; bundle
• 手shǒuhand; (formal) to hold; person engaged in certain types of work
• 待dàito wait; to treat; to deal with
• 毙bìto die; to shoot dead; to reject

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