| 末位淘汰 |
mò wèi táo tài |
sacking the worst-performing employee / elimination of the worst-performing contestant |
| 末 |
mò |
tip / end / final stage / latter part / inessential detail / powder / dust / opera role of old man |
| 位 |
wèi |
position / location / place / seat / classifier for people (honorific) / classifier for binary bits (e.g. 十六位 16-bit or 2 bytes) / (physics) potential |
| 淘 |
táo |
to wash / to clean out / to cleanse / to eliminate / to dredge |
| 淘汰 |
táo tài |
to wash out / (fig.) to cull / to weed out / to eliminate / to die out / to phase out |
| 汰 |
tài |
to discard / to eliminate |