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Korean idiom Taste bitter failure

쓴잔을 들다 [마시다/맛보다] Possible alternative: “마시다/맛보다” · Usage not verified

  • Form listed in the dictionary: 쓴잔을 들다[마시다/맛보다]
  • 쓴잔을 들다
  • 쓴잔을 마시다 Unverified form
  • 쓴잔을 맛보다 Unverified form

English rendering Taste bitter failure Literal translation: “Lift [drink/taste] a bitter cup”

Meaning 1

실패나 패배 따위의 쓰라린 일을 당하다.

Suffer something painful such as failure or defeat

Dictionary example 1

실연의 쓴잔을 들다 .

Taste the bitter cup of lost love.

Dictionary example 2

오늘 경기에 또 쓴잔을 들었다.

I suffered another bitter defeat in today’s game.

Dictionary example 3

우리 팀은 예선 탈락이라는 쓴잔을 마셨다.

Our team drank the bitter cup of elimination in the preliminaries.

Dictionary example 4

그는 낙선의 쓴잔을 맛본 끝에 이번에 국회 의원이 되었다.

After tasting electoral defeat, he became a member of the National Assembly this time.

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“쓴잔을 들다” — Taste bitter failure: Suffer something painful such as failure or defeat
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