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Examples:succeed or fail, sharp or blunt (idiom); advantages and disadvantages—Kang Youwei (1858-1927), Confucian intellectual, educator and would-be reformer, main leader of the failed reform movement of 1898—well-laid plans may fail, and success may come where you least expect it—failed and wiped over the floor (idiom); fail utterly—Battle of Stalingrad (1942-1943), decisive battle of Second World War and one of the bloodiest battles in history, when the Germans failed take Stalingrad, were then trapped and destroyed by Soviet forces—beaten and wiped over the floor (idiom); fail utterly—Peng Dehuai (1898-1974), top communist general, subsequently politician and politburo member, disgraced after attacking Mao's failed policies in 1959, and died after extensive persecution during the Cultural Revolution—failed and in a hopeless position—Liang Qichao (1873-1929), influential journalist and a leader of the failed reform movement of 1898—be distracted from one's work and fail to achieve results [idiom.]— |