idiom > Mourning death for trouble
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Mourning death for trouble
  Explanation: Sorrow: sorrow; do: serve. Mourn the dead, serve the living
  Usage: As a predicate, object; that the attitude towards life and death
  Source: Qian Han, "Wu district family": "Mourning death for trouble to be destiny."
  Examples: Tang Dugu and "Wuji Zai Sapporo on": "cried the tomb complex life, ~, what with the first blood in sacrifice and move, to treat them without a mess?"
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  Mourn the dead, serve the living.
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keep in good health meet one's fate, provide for the aged attend upon a dying parent or other senior member of one's family