bái xái
Definition
- Adjective (Colloquial, Southern Vietnamese dialect):
- To be thoroughly defeated or to lose very badly: Describes a situation where someone is completely beaten in a competition, game, or conflict, often by a large margin or in a humiliating way.
- To be in a state of complete failure or ruin: Can describe a situation, plan, or endeavor that has failed utterly and disastrously.
Usage Examples
- Adjective:
- Đội nhà thua bái xái với tỉ số 7-0. (The home team lost terribly with a score of 7-0.)
- Kế hoạch kinh doanh của họ thất bại bái xái. (Their business plan failed disastrously.)
Advanced Usage
- The term is often used in the fixed phrase "thua bái xái" (to lose badly) or "bại bái xái" (to be utterly defeated).
- Sau trận đấu, anh ấy thừa nhận mình đã thua bái xái. (After the match, he admitted he had been soundly beaten.)
Variants and Related Words
- Thảm bại (adj/n): a crushing defeat, a disastrous failure. This is a more standard term.
- Trận thua đó là một thảm bại. (That loss was a crushing defeat.)
Synonyms
- To be trounced: to be defeated heavily.
- To be routed: to be defeated and forced to retreat in disorder.
- To be demolished (colloquial): to be utterly defeated.
Related Idioms
- Thua trắng tay: to lose everything, to be left with nothing.
- Cậu ấy đánh bạc và thua trắng tay. (He gambled and lost everything.)
- Thua đậm: to lose by a large margin (common in sports).
- Họ thua đậm trong trận chung kết. (They lost by a large margin in the final match.)