粵

滑waat6鐵tit3廬lou4

simp滑铁庐
waat6 tit3 lou4huá tiě lú

English

  1. to be defeated [colloquial]; Waterloo [written and colloquial]
  2. Waterloo, Belgium (the place of the Battle of Waterloo in 1815)
  3. disastrous defeat; crushing defeat

粵語 — Cantonese

  1. 城鎮名；位於比利時中部，係拿破崙軍隊喺1815年戰役打敗仗嘅所在地
  2. 由滑鐵盧之役，引申指慘敗

Examples

  • 慘遭滑鐵盧

    to meet one's Waterloo; to suffer a disastrous defeat

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

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