Characters

• 一 (一): one; single; a (article); as soon as; entire; whole; all; throughout; "one" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 1); also pr. [yao1] for greater clarity when spelling out numbers digit by digit
• 败 (敗): to defeat; to damage; to lose (to an opponent); to fail; to wither
• 涂 (塗): to apply (paint etc); to smear; to daub; to blot out; to scribble; to scrawl; (literary) mud; street
• 地 (地): -ly; structural particle: used before a verb or adjective, linking it to preceding modifying adverbial adjunct

Resources

• Wiktionary: 一败涂地
• MDBG: 一败涂地
• Examples with 一败涂地 on Tatoeba

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