毁于一旦
      Explanation: Once: the day. Something that once destroyed the hard-won
      Usage: Partial official; as predicate, object; with derogatory
      Source: Southern Song Fan Ye, "the Book Dourong Biography": "tired of the century, and once ruined."
      Examples: Hundred years of hard-operation Yuanmingyuan, ~, is more a matter of great Henshi Zhuixinqixue. (Gao Yang, "Qing Unofficial History" under the book)
  • Thesaurus:  commit sth. to the flames, Paid Bingding, melt away disappearance of misunderstanding, beyond the highest heavens, disappear forever