fail when success is already in sight
The Chinese idiom, Pinyin is sh ì B à ichu í ch é ng, which means that things fail when they are about to succeed. It comes from the story of Huansha, begging for surrender.
The origin of Idioms
Liang Chenyu's Huansha Ji Qijiang in Ming Dynasty: "jiuren is a mountain, and his success falls short. He expects to gather without effort, and everything is on the verge of success."
Idiom usage
We can't see things like that again.
Chinese PinYin : shì bài chuí chéng
fail when success is already in sight
military forces are to be used only for the maintenance of peace and order. zhǐ gē wéi wǔ
a perfect match between a man and a girl. láng cái nǚ zī
The same thing is the same as the same thing. xíng tóng néng ǒu
landfall and seismic sea wave. shān bēng hǎi xiào
unable to speak in self-defense under certain circumstances. yǒu kǒu nán yán