So... Chinese: There's 去死吧 or "go to your death", or "go to hell". 活膩了嗎? - are you tired of living? - which is a general question toward someone being an ass. 趕著投胎嗎?- are you racing to your next reincarnation? 找死嗎? - looking for death?https://twitter.com/LauraNMauro/status/1214816540312428544 …
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...there's actually a lot of these... 死不瞑目 - so wronged that my eyes won't shut even in death. 死不認賬 - I won't admit to this even over my dead body 死纏爛打 - tangled even in death, beating something to rotten bits - super stalker refusing to take no for an answer.
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Common curses! 死無葬身之地 - I hope you die without a place to be buried. 死無全尸 - I hope you die without a complete corpse.
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無人送終 - I hope you die without anyone to mourn you. 氣死了氣死了 - so angry (someone) died. Your reminder here that a common thing for people to hold over their kids' heads is "if you piss me off, I'll die, and then where will you be".
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You can pretty much tack "dead" to anything? 冷死了 - so cold I'm dead. 熱死了 - so hot I'm dead 痛死了 - so painful I'm dead ...like, "I'm deceased" is pretty much ... Chinese have been saying it for everything for forever.
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Oh yeah! "Not knowing your death is upon you" is OFTEN said.https://twitter.com/eSZactLee/status/1214827352628183041 …
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Older people often call kids 死猴嬰仔 or "dead monkey child" when they're misbehaving.
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Often paired with 不見黃河心不死 - "not giving up until you see the Yellow River". Esp interesting as the part without lit. "death" - 見黃河: "see the Yellow River" - refers to ritual death. Whereas the part with "death" - 死心: "dead heart" - just means giving up a goal/idea.
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I thought about including that bit, but decided not to because there are so many folk stories surrounding how that line came to be. There's one about romantic love, another of injustice, and another of dreams unfulfilled.
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