míng​luò​sūn​shān

to fail an exam

  1. name
    name or title of a person or thing; a person's given name
  2. verb
    to lag behind
    to fall behind; to fail to keep up with others
  3. Sun Shan
    Sun Shan, a humorous and talented scholar from the Song Dynasty; famously known as the last name on the list of successful candidates in the imperial examinations, giving rise to the idiom 名落孙山 míng​luò​sūn​shān