飲恨
simp饮恨jam2 han6yǐn hèn
English
- to nurse a grievance
- to harbor a grudge
- to fail when victory is almost achieved; literally: to drink regret
粵語 — Cantonese
- 喺差少少就可以達到目標嘅情況下失敗
Examples
我地以一分之差輸咗,無緣冠軍,第三次飲恨攞銀牌。
We lost the championship finals by a point and, with shame, became silver medalists for the third time.
Sources: cc-cedict, rime-cantonese, words.hk