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Open the tool →屠所牛羊 (tú suǒ niú yáng) is a Chinese idiom (chengyu) meaning “a metaphor for someone who is doomed to die soon”.
屠所牛羊 is pronounced tú suǒ niú yáng in Mandarin Chinese.
Literally, 屠所牛羊 means “Cattle and sheep in a slaughterhouse”. It is used to mean “a metaphor for someone who is doomed to die soon”.
比喻临近死亡的人。