一蹶不振
yìjué-búzhèn
to never recover after a setback
Every meaning
yījué-bùzhèn
- to never recover after a setback
Its characters
- 一yīone
- 蹶jué
- 不bùnot; no
- 振zhènto shake; to flap (as in 振动)
Words with 一
Words with 不
Meanings from our own dictionary. Chengyu from the Xinhua idiom list, the most common first.