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(lit.) everything bodes ill, no positive signs (idiom) · (fig.) inauspicious; everything points to disaster

凶多吉少
xiōng duō jí shǎo
x+iōng·1st toned+uō·1st tonej+í·2nd tonesh+ǎo·3rd tone
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nine deaths and still alive (idiom); a narrow escape · new lease of life九死一生jiǔ sǐ yī shēngto be critically ill · to be terminally ill病危bìng wēi(idiom) bad omen不祥之兆bù xiáng zhī zhàotoo horrible to contemplate · unthinkable · inconceivable不堪设想bù kān shè xiǎng