落花流水

落花流水 [luò huā liú shuǐ]

1. ■ Petals drop and waters flow.; beat sb. all to pieces [nothing; ribands; sticks]; beat sb. hollow [all hollow]; beat [knock] someone into fits; be badly battered; be shattered to pieces; dropping petals and flowing waters; falling petals and running waters; Fallen petals are all carried away by the flowing water.; (as swiftly as) flowing water carries away petals from [of] dead flowers; give sb. a thorough beating; like fallen flowers carried away by flowing water -- in a sorry plight; like flowers scattered in a flowing stream -- the saddening state of a fallen family or country; utterly routed