[all one's efforts wasted; irrevocably lost] 物件投付于东流之水, 一去不返。 喻功败垂成、 希望成灰

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cast (deliver; throw) to the winds; All hope is lost.; be gone with the eastward-flowing streams (wind); be gone with the wind; bury in oblivion; come to naught; consign it to the waters, eastward bound; end in smoke; entrust sth. to the east-flowing streams; forget as sth. past; give up; give up as impracticable; go to the wall; go (run) to waste; irrevocably lost; It's a forlorm hope.; leave a matter to chance; The game is up.; thrown into the eastward flowing stream -- all one's efforts wasted:

1) All efforts are wasted.

2) be irrevocably lost

【释义】付：交给；诸：之于。扔在东流的水里冲走。比喻希望落空，成果丧失，前功尽弃，好象随着流水冲走了一样。

【近义】付之东流

【反义】继日成功

【出处】唐·高适《封丘作》诗：“生事应须南亩田，世事尽付东流水。”

【用例】惜丙寅清水潭决，稿本付诸东流，故录其梗概于此。（清·黄钧宰《金壶七墨·鸳鸯印传奇始末》）