nearly man English

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What does nearly man mean?

nearly man noun

— A man who fails to achieve the success or status that he might potentially have had.

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Movie subtitles

What they're building here in Nanjing is a fuII-scaIe replica of one of the treasure ships of admiral Zheng He - the most famous sailor in Chinese history, the man who very nearly turned the middle Kingdom into a global empire.