work not completed

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