阴沟里翻船

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

surname Yin

overcast (weather) / cloudy / shady / Yin (the negative principle of Yin and Yang) / negative (electric.) / feminine / moon / implicit / hidden / genitalia

variant of 陰|阴[yin1]

ditch / gutter / groove / gully / ravine / CL:道[dao4]

variant of 裡|里[li3]

lining / interior / inside / internal / also written 裏|里[li3]

li, ancient measure of length, approx. 500 m / neighborhood / ancient administrative unit of 25 families / (Tw) borough, administrative unit between the township 鎮|镇[zhen4] and neighborhood 鄰|邻[lin2] levels

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]

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

variant of 船[chuan2]

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