- to lose one's standing
- to have one's reputation swept away
- a complete defeat and fall from grace
Characters
- 身 (身): body; life; oneself; personally; one's morality and conduct; the main part of a structure or body; pregnant; classifier for sets of clothes: suit, twinset; Kangxi radical 158
- 败 (敗): to defeat; to damage; to lose (to an opponent); to fail; to wither
- 名 (名): name; noun (part of speech); place (e.g. among winners); famous; classifier for people
- 裂 (裂): to split; to crack; to break open; to rend
Resources
- Wiktionary: 身败名裂
- MDBG: 身败名裂
- Examples with 身败名裂 on Tatoeba
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