颜面扫地

lit. for one's face to reach rock bottom / to be thoroughly discredited (idiom)

Characters and words in 颜面扫地

surname Yan

= + : Han Yanzhi (彦) is mad at Maud Younger (y) for messing up his plants, so he wants to teach her a lesson (给点颜色看看). In the anthill's kitchen (an2) he sticks flypaper (页) of all colors (颜) on Maud's body to make sure that she never comes back.
color / face / countenance

= + : Han Yanzhi (彦) is mad at Maud Younger (y) for messing up his plants, so he wants to teach her a lesson (给点颜色看看). In the anthill's kitchen (an2) he sticks flypaper (页) of all colors (颜) on Maud's body to make sure that she never comes back.
Japanese variant of 顏|颜[yan2]

= + : Han Yanzhi (彦) is mad at Maud Younger (y) for messing up his plants, so he wants to teach her a lesson (给点颜色看看). In the anthill's kitchen (an2) he sticks flypaper (页) of all colors (颜) on Maud's body to make sure that she never comes back.
face / prestige
face / side / surface / aspect / top / classifier for objects with flat surfaces such as drums, mirrors, flags etc

= + : Mnemonic symbol: a spray flask with one of these liquids which make a surface super slippery.

In the anthill's bathroom (an4), Marilyn Monroe (mi) wants to set up a wind wheel (丆) on top of a closet (囬). Just as she tries to fix it she slips and falls down, the wind wheel crashing on the floor. She didn't notice that somebody used a can of non-stick coating (面) on the closet's surfaces (面).
variant of 麵|面[mian4]
flour / noodles / (of food) soft (not crunchy) / (slang) (of a person) ineffectual / spineless
to sweep

= + : Socrates (s) is sweeping the aorta (ao3) using a broom (扫). There are big pig snouts (彐) lying around on the floor which he picks up using a toy claw (扌) because they are too big to sweep (扫).
broom
to sweep the floor / (fig.) (of one's reputation etc) to reach rock bottom / to be at an all-time low
de = d + e5
-ly / structural particle: used before a verb or adjective, linking it to preceding modifying adverbial adjunct
earth / ground / field / place / land / CL:片[pian4]

= + : Dorothy Gale (di) operates the excavator (也) in the space station's bathroom (Ø4) to move a pile of dirt (土) out of the way.

Words with 颜面扫地

颜面扫地 is not used as a component in another word.

Sentences with 颜面扫地

颜面扫地 currently does not appear in any sentence.