估计这项目是打水漂了
“that deal is probably gone.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
出来陪你
“with you,”
估计 这项目 是 打水漂 了
“that deal is probably gone.”
对不起
“Sorry.”
Direct spoken expression in this communicative setting.
The idiom 'da shui piao' evokes skipping stones across water—where the stone sinks and disappears—metaphorically depicting irreversible waste of financial resources.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
go down the drain; completely wasted (literally: skipping stones)
A very common idiomatic metaphor used when investments, efforts, or money vanish without return.
estimate; reckon; guess
Used as an epistemic hedge to state an assumption or soft conclusion without sounding absolute.
Signals a completed change of state or inevitable realization regarding the project's failure.
