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吃力不讨好
chī​lì​bù​tǎo​hǎo

thankless

Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents
吃力不讨好 (吃力不討好) chī​lì​bù​tǎo​hǎo
thankless expression
an arduous and thankless task; strenuous and unrewarding

Frequency

Written text
0.510 per million

Sources

Definitions
CC-CEDICT
Frequency data
BCC Corpus (BLCU)