do-or-die
不死不休,不成功便成仁,不做不死,不做不休
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- : reflecting or characterized by an irrevocable decision to succeed at all costs; desperate; all-out: a do-or-die attempt to halt the invaders.
- : involving a potentially fatal crisis or crucial emergency.
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Yves Albarello, MP of Seine-et-Marne, said the gunmen told police they were ready to “die as martyrs.”
As this list shows, punishments typically run to a short-ish jail sentence and/or a moderately hefty fine.
Asserting our right to free speech is the only to ensure that 12 people did not die in vain.
Though this too is debatable given that 25,000 to 40,000 people a year die of influenza—the vast majority of them unvaccinated.
They made it home, after which he did die, she nursing him to the end.
"A camp-fire would hardly flash and die out like that, Sarge," he answered thoughtfully.
But men, through neglecting the rules of health, pass quickly to old age, and die before reaching that term.
I cannot believe that God would think it necessary to come on earth as a man, and die on the Cross.
With three or four more wounds, and the words with which he aided her to die, he finished with her.
The ne'er-do-well blew, like seed before the wind, to distant places, but mankind at large stayed at home.