颜面扫地 — Chinese idiom
颜面扫地
yán miàn sǎo dì
Traditional: 顏面掃地
Meaning
- lit. for one's face to reach rock bottom
- to be thoroughly discredited
Character by character
- 颜yánface, facial appearance
- 面miànface; surface, side; plane, dimension
- 扫sǎoto clean, to sweep, to wipe away; to weed out; to
- 地dìearth, ground, soil; land, region; structural part
Idioms sharing a character
- 喜笑颜开 xǐ xiào yán kāi
- 奴颜婢膝 nú yán bì xī
- 正颜厉色 zhèng yán lì sè
- 皓首苍颜 hào shǒu cāng yán
- 笑逐颜开 xiào zhú yán kāi
- 红颜薄命 hóng yán bó mìng
- 一面之缘 yī miàn zhī yuán
- 人面兽心 rén miàn shòu xīn
- 以泪洗面 yǐ lèi xǐ miàn
- 两面三刀 liǎng miàn sān dāo
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