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胯下之辱

kuà xià zhī rǔ

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Definitions

  1. 1. lit. the humiliation of having to crawl between the legs of one's adversary (as Han Xin 韓信|韩信[hán xìn] supposedly did rather than engage in a sword fight) (idiom)
  2. 2. fig. utter humiliation