一蹶不振

jat1 kyut3 bat1 zan3

one stumble, unable to rise (idiom); a setback leading to total collapse · ruined at a stroke · unable to recover after a minor hitch

Meanings

  1. one stumble, unable to rise (idiom); a setback leading to total collapse
  2. ruined at a stroke
  3. unable to recover after a minor hitch

CC-Canto and the CC-CEDICT Cantonese readings are copyright (c) 2015-17 Pleco Software Incorporated, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0. CC-CEDICT is copyright its maintainers, with portions from the original CEDICT database copyright (c) 1997, 1998 Paul Andrew Denisowski, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0.

Filtered, regrouped by canonical lemma, and reformatted as an immutable web projection. Source gloss text is not rewritten.

View Source CC BY-SA 3.0