翻船

to capsize / (fig.) to suffer a setback or defeat

to turn over / to flip over / to overturn / to rummage through / to translate / to decode / to double / to climb over or into / to cross

variant of 翻[fan1]

variant of 船[chuan2]

boat / vessel / ship / CL:條|条[tiao2],艘[sou1],隻|只[zhi1]

to meet with unexpected failure (idiom) / to fail miserably (where failure was not expected)