1 government

2 classifier: 个 gè

1 politics

2 political

1 policy

2 classifier: 个 gè

1 to droop

2 to sag

3 to hang down

4 sagging

5 drooping

6 prolapse (medicine)

1 to droop

2 to hang low

1 The higher ups have policies while the lower downs have their own ways of getting around them. (idiom)

1 to fail within sight of success (idiom); last-minute failure

2 to fall at the last hurdle

3 snatching defeat from the jaws of victory

1 honest and industrious government functionaries (idiom)

1 lit. reputation will go down in history (idiom); fig. achievements will earn eternal glory

1 lit. don't sit under the eaves (where tiles may fall from the roof) (idiom); fig. keep out of danger