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吃力不讨好
chī​lì​bù​tǎo​hǎo

thankless task

Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents
吃力不讨好 吃力不討好 chī​lì​bù​tǎo​hǎo
thankless task
To put in a lot of hard work only to get no appreciation or even face criticism; strenuous and unrewarding.

Frequency

Written text
0.510 per million

Sources

Frequency data
BCC Corpus (BLCU)