Gong Kui Yi Kui (Ruining an Enterprise for the Lack of One Basketful)
Kou Ruo Xuan He (A Waterfall of Words)
Yi Ming Jing Ren (Amazing the World with a Single Feat)
Defining a Hero While Warming the Wine |
Once, a man planned to build a terrace. He worked very hard and spent a lot of time digging and carrying earth. When the mound was almost completed and only one more basket of earth was needed, the man gave up. The terrace was never completed. This idiom means to fail to succeed for lack of a final effort. It has a connotation of pity. |
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