成事不足,敗事有餘
See also: 成事不足,败事有余
Chinese edit
to accomplish a task; to succeed; to complete a mission | to fail in something; to bungle; to spoil something | |||||
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trad. (成事不足,敗事有餘) | 成事 | 不足 | , | 敗事 | 有餘 | |
simp. (成事不足,败事有余) | 成事 | 不足 | , | 败事 | 有余 |
Pronunciation edit
Idiom edit
成事不足,敗事有餘
- always failing, never succeeding; plenty of failures, but not much success
Synonyms edit
- (Cantonese) 食嘢唔做嘢,做嘢打爛嘢/食嘢唔做嘢,做嘢打烂嘢