灰飞烟灭 / 灰飛煙滅

huī fēi yān miè

Meaning

• literally scattered ashes and dispersed smoke (idiom)
• figuratively to be annihilated
• to vanish in a puff of smoke

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Example sentences

• 我的梦想灰飞烟灭了。

  我的夢想灰飛煙滅了。

  wǒ de mèng xiǎng huī fēi yān miè le。

  My dream has vanished into thin air.

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