功 功
亏 虧
一 一
篑 簣
- lit. to ruin the enterprise for the sake of one basketful
- to fail through lack of a final effort
- to spoil the ship for a ha'penny worth of tar (idiom)
Info
- Wiktionary: 功亏一篑
- MDBG: 功亏一篑
- Examples with 功亏一篑 on Tatoeba
- Tags: chengyu