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置之死地

zhìzhīsǐdì

to place sb on field of death / to confront with mortal danger / to give sb no way out / with one's back to the wall / looking death in the eye / part of idiom [[置之死地而後生|置之死地而后生]]

Character Breakdown

置
zhì
to lay out, to place, to set aside
HSK 5
之
zhī
marks preceding phrase as modifier of following phrase; it, him her, them; to go to
HSK 4
死
sǐ
dead; death; impassable, inflexible
HSK 4
地
de
earth, ground, soil; land, region; structural particle used before a verb
HSK 3

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