置之死地而后快 meaning in English
would be satisfied with nothing short of someone's destruction; will be content with nothing less than sb.'s destruction; will not be satisfied until someone has been destroyed; in an attempt to finish it off for good
Examples
- The strangest of all, to him, was the hatred, the brutal, uncloaked, inexorable hatred .
最叫他觉得奇怪的是那种怨恨，蛮横残忍的，毫不掩饰的，置之死地而后快的怨恨。