There is no turning back
In Chinese, the Pinyin is zh ī L ú NW ú f ǎ n, which means total failure. It means that even one wheel of the chariot fails to return. It's a metaphor for the annihilation of the whole army. It comes from the biography of Gongyang, the 33rd year of Duke Fu.
The origin of Idioms
"Gongyangzhuan · the 33rd year of Yugong" says: "however, the Jin people and Jiang Rong want to eat the food and attack it, and the horse has no reaction."
Analysis of Idioms
Never come back
Idiom usage
Today is not a boast of self recommendation, if you use a certain as a general, you will never return. The 86th chapter of Eastern Zhou Dynasty annals by Feng Menglong in Ming Dynasty
There is no turning back
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