无颜见江东父老
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Definitions
- 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)
Child Words of 无颜见江东父老
east
river
not to have
to see
to appear
Jiangdong district of Ningbo city 寧波市|宁波市[níng bō shì], Zhejiang
father
elders
color
prefix used before the surname of a person or a numeral indicating the order of birth of the children in a family or to indicate affection or familiarity