跌dit3眼ngaan5鏡geng2

simp跌眼镜

dit3 ngaan5 geng2diē yǎn jìng

English

to be taken aback
(slang) someone gets disappointed because makes wrong expectation and prediction on people or events
to fail to meet expectations; go against all expectations ; literally: dropping glasses

粵語 — Cantonese

出乎意料，唔符合預期

Examples

佢係呢次比賽其中一個大熱門，點知三甲不入，真係令人跌晒眼鏡。
She is one of the front-runners in the contest, however she didn't make top three. It really went against all expectations.

Sources: cc-canto, cc-cedict, rime-cantonese, words.hk

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