- 竜頭蛇尾
- りゅうとうだび
a strong beginning and a weak ending
an anticlimax* * *りゅうとうだび【竜頭蛇尾】anticlimax〖C〗[しばしばおどけて] 不面目な結末, 竜頭蛇尾;(楽しいことの後の)拍子抜けa flash in the pan《略式》一時的成功(の人), 竜頭蛇尾(の人).* * *りゅうとうだび【竜頭蛇尾】bright beginning, dull finish; bathos; an anticlimax.●竜頭蛇尾に終わる end (up) in an anticlimax; fizzle [peter] out
・それは竜頭蛇尾に終わった. It went up like a rocket and came down like a stick. | It was a flash in the pan.
Japanese-English dictionary. 2013.