fail on the verge of success(gōng bài chuí chéng)

fail on the verge of success

Success is on the verge of success, Chinese idiom, Pinyin is g à NGB à ichu í ch é ng, which means that when things are close to success, they are defeated. It comes from the biography of Yang Fu in the annals of the Three Kingdoms.

Analysis of Idioms

The success of antonym falls short

The origin of Idioms

Yang Fu's biography in the annals of the Three Kingdoms states: "abandon the achievement of Chuicheng and fall into the name of injustice. Fu will stick to it."

Idiom usage

I'm sorry. I'm sorry. Example: in the biography of Xie Xuan in the book of Jin: "the temple has more than enough calculation, but the good plan doesn't work; how can we promote the decline of age? Success is on the verge of success." Chen Guokai's price: "the major scientific research project 'Xinyi' which he has worked hard for many years can't be carried out." "It's a pity that the new deal can't be carried out," says Tsai Ting Kai's autobiography, revisiting Nanyang and his wife's death The 61st chapter of Wu Jianren's twenty years of witnessing the strange situation in Qing Dynasty: "besides, he may not know whether the 12 gold medals are fake. Why should he go back to his class so as to ~"

Idioms and allusions

Under the command of his uncle Xie an, general Xie Xuan of the Eastern Jin Dynasty won an all-round victory in the Feishui war, forcing Fu Jian, the former king of the Qin Dynasty, to flee back to Guanzhong. Xie Xuan took advantage of the victory and recovered a large area of territory in the north. Just when the North was about to be unified, simayao, Emperor Xiaowu of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, listened to the slander and ordered him to take up his troops and garrison in Huaiyin. After receiving the imperial edict from the emperor stationed there, Xie Xuan saw that he would be successful for thousands of years. However, due to the missed opportunity, he immediately fell short of success. He went to Shanghai again and again, stated his interests, and even offered his resignation, but he was not allowed to do so. On the way back to Korea, he died of a mixture of anger and sorrow. He was only 46 years old when he died. when he attempted to unify the north, people lamented that he was on the verge of success or failure.

Chinese PinYin : gōng bài chuí chéng