yī​shì​wú​chéng HSK7

achieve nothing

一事无成 (一事無成) yī​shì​wú​chéng
achieve nothing idiom
(idiom) to have achieved nothing; to be a total failure; to get nowhere

四十还是一事无成

kuài sì​shí suì le, hái​shi yī​shì​wú​chéng.

He is nearly forty and has still achieved nothing.

Frequency

Movie subtitles
2.71 per million appears in 1% of films
Written text
1.29 per million

Details

HSK 3.0
Level 7

Sources

Definitions
CC-CEDICT