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功亏一篑
gōng​kuī​yī​kuì

falling short

Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents
功亏一篑 (功虧一簣) gōng​kuī​yī​kuì
falling short idiom
To fail to complete a task or enterprise through lack of a final effort just as it is nearing completion.

Frequency

Movie subtitles
0.570 per million appears in 0% of films
Written text
0.810 per million

Sources

Definitions
CC-CEDICT
Frequency data
SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)