一蹶不振 yījuébùzhèn to collapse after a setback Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents 一蹶不振 yījuébùzhèn to collapse after a setback Literally "one stumble, unable to rise"; used as an idiom to describe being unable to recover or pull oneself together after a single failure or defeat. Frequency Movie subtitles 1.16 per million appears in 1% of films Written text 1.02 per million Cross-References Antonym 东山再起 dōngshānzàiqǐ再接再厉 zàijiēzàilì Sources Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)
一蹶不振 yījuébùzhèn to collapse after a setback Literally "one stumble, unable to rise"; used as an idiom to describe being unable to recover or pull oneself together after a single failure or defeat. Frequency Movie subtitles 1.16 per million appears in 1% of films Written text 1.02 per million Cross-References Antonym 东山再起 dōngshānzàiqǐ再接再厉 zàijiēzàilì Sources Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)
