"名落孙山" • Chinese-English Dictionary

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 míng luò sūn shān lit. to fall behind Sun Shan 孫山|孙山[Sun1 Shan1] (who came last in the imperial examination) (idiom) / fig. to fail an exam / to fall behind (in a competition)
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