一败涂地 — Chinese idiom
一败涂地
yī bài tú dì
Traditional: 一敗塗地
Meaning
- lit. defeated, the ground blanketed with bodies
- fig. to suffer a crushing defeat
Character by character
- 一yīone; a, an; alone
- 败bàifailure; to decline, to fail, to suffer defeat
- 涂túto smear, to scribble, to daub; surname
- 地dìearth, ground, soil; land, region; structural part
Idioms sharing a character
- 一丁不识 yī dīng bù shí
- 一丘之貉 yī qiū zhī hé
- 一之为甚 yī zhī wéi shèn
- 一干二净 yī gān èr jìng
- 一了百了 yī liǎo bǎi liǎo
- 一事无成 yī shì wú chéng
- 一五一十 yī wǔ yī shí
- 一以贯之 yī yǐ guàn zhī
- 一元复始 yī yuán fù shǐ
- 一刀两断 yī dāo liǎng duàn
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