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阴沟里翻船
yīn gōu lǐ fān chuán
What 阴沟里翻船 means
- to meet with unexpected failure (idiom)
- to fail miserably (where failure was not expected)
The characters in 阴沟里翻船
- 阴yīnovercast (weather); cloudy; shady
- 沟gōuditch; gutter; groove
- 里lǐlining; interior; inside
- 翻fānto turn over; to flip over; to overturn
- 船chuánboat; vessel; ship
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