Chinese–English

阴沟里翻船

yīn gōu lǐ fān chuán · yin gou li fan chuan

Traditional 陰溝裡翻船

Meaning

CC-CEDICT
  1. to meet with unexpected failure (idiom)
  2. to fail miserably (where failure was not expected)
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