化为泡影
      Explanation: Bubble: bubble. Become like a bubble and a shadow, as soon disappears
      Usage: Verb-object type; for the predicate; that hope dashed
      Source: Guo, "Bo Qu Chapter One": "As the June 11 of the Yellow River burst its banks, so that a flood plain Yudong, also of the order to bubbles."
  • Thesaurus:  dissolve like ice and break like tiles, vanish, be blessed with a double portion of good fortune, Kujintianlai, After a storm comes a calm., to have simutaneously two happy events in a family., sun shines again after the rain, After the rain First Clearing, Yunkai morn, when the clouds part,one sees the sun
  • Antonym Group:  at a brush arrive, be done over night reach Heaven at a single bound, Skyrocket, zip across the horizon, follow up a victory head, world-renowned, Name of high land, rain cats and dogs, land famous for, aim too high; bite off more than one can chew, Seal line is Hydra, Feng pig Revised Snake, rapid promotion, go places, overcloud, Unexpected calamities, No longer pipe, no longer dance., cockatrice a beast of prey, pestilence, born at a wrong time., born at a wrong time, Misfortunes never come alone [single]. (=One misfortune calls up another.), blessing Alone extremely, advance by leaps and bounds, dodge a pit only to fall into a well, one disaster after another, be in the ascendant, unexpected disaster, Fei Zai accident