付诸东流

付诸东流 [fù zhū dōng liú]

1. ■ cast [deliver; throw] to the winds; All hope is lost.; be gone with the eastward-flowing streams [wind]; be gone with the wind; bury in oblivion; come to naught; consign it to the waters, eastward bound; end in smoke; entrust sth. to the east-flowing streams; forget as sth. past; give up; give up as impracticable; go to the wall; go [run] to waste; irrevocably lost; It's a forlorm hope.; leave a matter to chance; The game is up.; thrown into the eastward flowing stream -- all one's efforts wasted:

当时情况就是那样， 他的计划只好付诸东流。 As things stood then, his whole plan had to be cast to the winds.