人命危浅 (rén mìng wēi qiǎn) | Meaning: one's days (or hours) are numbered | Chinese Idiom with Pinyin & Origin

in one's later days · "the sun is setting beyond (or behind) the western hills" - declining rapidly; nearing one's end · decline like the setting sun · in the evening of life · (like) the falling sun日薄西山rì bó xī shān

to have only a breath of life (idiom)气息奄奄qì xī yǎn yǎn

the sun sets over western hills (idiom); the day approaches its end · fig. time of decline · the end of an era · Sic transit gloria mundi日落西山rì luò xī shān

lit. the disease has attacked the vitals (idiom); fig. beyond cure · the situation is hopeless病入膏肓bìng rù gāo huāng

one's days (or hours) are numbered

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