the whole army was wiped out(quán jūn fù mò)

the whole army was wiped out

The Chinese idiom, the Pinyin is Qu á NJ ū NF ù mॸ, which means that the whole army has been destroyed. It's also a metaphor for a complete failure. It comes from the biography of Li xilie in the old book of Tang Dynasty.

The origin of Idioms

In the biography of Li Xilei in the old book of Tang Dynasty: "all the officers and soldiers were defeated by him, and Zhang Boyi, the Jiedu envoy of Jingnan, was completely destroyed.

The origin of Idioms

According to the biography of Li Xilei in the old book of Tang Dynasty, "all the officers and soldiers were defeated by him, and Zhang Boyi, the Jiedu envoy of Jingnan, was completely destroyed."

Idiom usage

Subject predicate; predicate, attributive; derogatory. The eunuch Guo Jing supervised the army. The generals knew that it was made by the eunuch, and the division had no discipline, but Song Lian and Zhu Mian did. (Volume 9 of rizhilu by Gu Yanwu in Qing Dynasty)

Chinese PinYin : quán jūn fù mò