work not completed
Falling short is a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is g ō ngku ī y ī Ku ì, which means that a mountain with nine feet high is short of a basket of soil and can't be completed. It means that it's a waste of time to do something just a little short of the last point but can't be completed. From the book of history, Lu mastiff.
Analysis of Idioms
Success is near and all previous achievements are wasted; success is complete and good beginning and good ending are achieved
The origin of Idioms
"Shangshu · Lu mastiff": "for the mountain nine Ren, failure."
Idiom usage
If the court is at odds with each other inside and outside, it will make the suppression of thieves a major event. Yao xueyin's Li Zicheng, Vol.2, Chapter 32
work not completed
neither spreading about nor branching out-concise - bù màn bù zhī
Take the snow and fill the river - dān xuě tián hé
secure the state and comfort the people - bǎo guó ān mín
Every inch has its strength - chǐ yóu suǒ duǎn,cùn yóu suǒ chánɡ
search for an opening for oneself by all possible means - zuān tiān rù dì