汉英词典
Chinese-English Dictionary
MEANING OF 扫地出门
扫地出门 (掃地出門)
drive out / sweep the floor / be swept out like rubbish
Metaphor to completely remove the bad things / All property was confiscated and he was driven out of the house
() sǎo/sào de/dì chū () mén
EXAMPLE SENTENCES

现在他们知道我要把他们扫地出门

Now they know that I am sweeping them away.

他不听我的道歉,把我扫地出门

He wouldn't listen to my apology and showed me the door.

由于优先清偿权,创始人和所有员工一无所获,而被扫地出门

Due to liquidation preference rights, the founders and all employees walk away with exactly nothing.

同时,持续壮大的管理层以及现金流转困扰着我,我想把这些问题扫地出门

Meanwhile, it's an ever growing administrative and cash flow problem for me. I want this off my plate.

由于种种原因,“不可能”这种自限的蔓延,已将美国人迎接早期的太空挑战的乐观精神扫地出门

For various reasons, the spread of no-can-do limits has swept aside the optimism with which Americans met the initial challenges of the space age.

技术证书好比敲门砖,它可以把你领进门,但如果活干得不好的话,还是一样会被扫地出门

While technical credentials can get you in the door, you'll get nailed if you can't handle the work.

艾萨克森从乔布斯在硅谷卑微的出身开始撰写,他在苹果早期的辉煌,接着丢人现眼地被自己创立的公司扫地出门

Isaacson begins with Jobs's humble origins in Silicon Valley, the early triumph at Apple, and the humiliating ouster from the firm he created.