be utterly routed
Defeat, a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is Ku ì B ù ch é NGJ ū n, meaning to be beaten to pieces, not to form a team; to describe defeat. From Li Zicheng.
Notes on Idioms
Rout: rout, disorder.
The origin of Idioms
Chapter 8 of the first volume of Li Zicheng by Yao xueyin: "waiting for the enemy's spirit to begin to decline, we can seize the key point and strike hard, then we can defeat the enemy."
Analysis of Idioms
Abandon one's armour, draw one's troops, lose one's ground
Idiom usage
It is used as predicate, attribute, complement, derogatory and military. The foreign devils were defeated by the boxers.
be utterly routed
The natural endowment of the lake - bēi hú bǐng liáng
scheme exhausted and situation pressing - jì qióng shì pò