徒劳无功 túláowúgōng to work to no avail Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents 徒劳无功 徒勞無功 túláowúgōng to work to no avail To work in vain; to waste one's effort without achieving any results. Frequency Movie subtitles 0.480 per million appears in 0% of films Written text 0.555 per million Cross-References Antonym 水到渠成 shuǐdàoqúchéngSynonym 枉费心计 wǎngfèixīnjì Sources Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)
徒劳无功 徒勞無功 túláowúgōng to work to no avail To work in vain; to waste one's effort without achieving any results. Frequency Movie subtitles 0.480 per million appears in 0% of films Written text 0.555 per million Cross-References Antonym 水到渠成 shuǐdàoqúchéngSynonym 枉费心计 wǎngfèixīnjì Sources Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)
