一败涂地
Traditional form:
一敗塗地
Pinyin (reading):
yībàitúdì
Definitions:
- lit. defeated, the ground blanketed with bodies (idiom)
- fig. to suffer a crushing defeat
Characters:
- 一 - one; a, an; alone
- 败 - failure; to decline, to fail, to suffer defeat
- 涂 - to smear, to scribble, to daub; surname
- 地 - earth, ground, soil; land, region; structural particle used before a verb
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