兵败如山倒
bīng​bài​rú​shān​dǎo

total collapse

  • created sense approved 兵败如山倒/兵敗如山倒 · bīng​bài​rú​shān​dǎo · total collapse — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    兵败如山倒 / 兵敗如山倒

    bīng​bài​rú​shān​dǎo

    total collapse

    a beaten army in total collapse; used to describe a defeat that is quick and irreversible, like a landslide

    兵 (literal) → 兵 · bīng · army 败 (literal) → 败/敗 · bài · to be defeated 如 (literal) → 如 · rú · to be like 山 (literal) → 山 · shān · mountain 倒 (literal) → 倒 · dǎo · to fall

    Changed: simplified, traditional, gloss, definition, pinyin, variant pinyin, variants, separable parts, decomposition

    created sense