成事不足，败事有余 meaning - Chinese-English Dictionary

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MEANING OF 成事不足，败事有余

成事不足，败事有余
(成事不足，敗事有餘)

Definition unable to accomplish anything but liable to spoil everything (idiom) / unable to do anything right / never make, but always mar

Idiom Refers to bad things, but messes them up

Usage

中文释义不能把事情办好，反而把事情弄坏。多用来指斥办事拙劣或故意不让事情办成的人。

Characters 成 chéng 事 shì 不 bù/bú 足 zú 败 (敗) bài 有 yǒu 余 (餘) yú

EXAMPLE SENTENCES
	自由基成事不足，败事有余，它只会破坏我们的大脑神经元。 Free radicals have nothing to do with Berkeley politics and everything to do with breaking down the neurons in our brains.
	我一定是个败事有余的人！ What a pain I must be!
	艾凡，这件事我真的很抱歉。我一定是个败事有余的人！ I'm really sorry about this, Evan. What a pain I must be!