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成事不足,敗事有餘

成事不足,敗事有餘

Chinese

to accomplish a task; to succeed insufficient; inadequate to fail in something; to bungle; to spoil something to have an abundance
trad. (成事不足,敗事有餘) 成事 不足 敗事 有餘
simp. (成事不足,败事有余) 成事 不足 败事 有余

Idiom

成事不足,敗事有餘

  1. always failing, never succeeding; plenty of failures, but not much success