垂头丧气 — Chinese idiom
垂头丧气
chuí tóu sàng qì
Traditional: 垂頭喪氣
Meaning
- hanging one's head dispiritedly ; dejected
- crestfallen
Character by character
- 垂chuíto hang, to dangle; to hand down, to bequeath; alm
- 头tóuhead; chief, boss; first, top
- 丧sàngmourning; mourn; funeral
- 气qìair, gas; steam, vapor; anger
Idioms sharing a character
- 功败垂成 gōng bài chuí chéng
- 名垂青史 míng chuí qīng shǐ
- 坐不垂堂 zuò bù chuí táng
- 垂死挣扎 chuí sǐ zhēng zhá
- 垂涎三尺 chuí xián sān chǐ
- 垂涎欲滴 chuí xián yù dī
- 垂帘听政 chuí lián tīng zhèng
- 染指垂涎 rǎn zhǐ chuí xián
- 三天两头 sān tiān liǎng tóu
- 三头六臂 sān tóu liù bì
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