日暮途穷 — Chinese idiom
日暮途穷
rì mù tú qióng
Traditional: 日暮途窮
Meaning
- sunset, the end of the road ; in terminal decline
- at a dead end
Character by character
- 日rìsun; day; daytime
- 暮mùdusk, evening, sunset; ending
- 途túway, road, path, journey, course
- 穷qióngpoor, destitute; to exhaust
Idioms sharing a character
- 一日三秋 yī rì sān qiū
- 一日之雅 yī rì zhī yǎ
- 一日千里 yī rì qiān lǐ
- 不见天日 bù jiàn tiān rì
- 世风日下 shì fēng rì xià
- 来日方长 lái rì fāng cháng
- 偷天换日 tōu tiān huàn rì
- 光天化日 guāng tiān huà rì
- 同日而语 tóng rì ér yǔ
- 夜以继日 yè yǐ jì rì
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