鸡飞蛋打

1. • the chicken has flown the coop and the eggs are broken
2. • a dead loss (idiom)

Character by character

• 鸡(jī)fowl
• 飞(fēi)fly
• 蛋(dàn)egg
• 打(dǎ)a semantically light, transitive verb that is combined with various grammatical objects to form compound verbs and verb-object phrases with a diverse range of meanings