馬革裹屍

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Chinese

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horse; surname leather; remove wrap around corpse
trad. (馬革裹屍)
simp. (马革裹尸)
Literally: “to have one's corpse shrouded in horse leather”.

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馬革裹屍 (chengyu)

  1. to die in the battlefield (of a soldier)