颜面扫地
Traditional form:
顏面掃地
Pinyin (reading):
yánmiànsǎodì
Definitions:
- lit. for one's face to reach rock bottom
- to be thoroughly discredited (idiom)
Characters:
- 颜 - face, facial appearance
- 面 - face; surface, side; plane, dimension
- 扫 - to clean, to sweep, to wipe away; to weed out; to wipe out
- 地 - earth, ground, soil; land, region; structural particle used before a verb
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