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水泡に帰する
Meanings, readings, and example sentences for the Japanese word 水泡に帰する.
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Idiomatic expression; Suru verb - special class
to come to nothing; to go down the drain; to go up in smoke
Examples
キング牧師が献身的に力を尽くしたものすべてが水泡に帰したかのように思われた。
Everything Rev. Martin Luther King had worked so hard for seemed lost.
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