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无颜见江东父老

wú yán jiàn jiāng dōng fù lǎo

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Definitions

  1. 1. (idiom) to be unable to return to one's hometown due to the shame of failure (originally referred to Xiang Yu 項羽|项羽[xiàng yǔ], who chose not to retreat to Jiangdong after his humiliating defeat)