cǎn​dàn​jīng​yíng

to elaborate a layout

惨淡经营 慘淡經營 cǎn​dàn​jīng​yíng
to elaborate a layout
to work out a plan or design with painstaking effort, originally of a painter or writer considering the composition of their work
to keep going by painstaking effort
to build up or maintain an enterprise or cause despite great difficulties and hardships

Frequency

Movie subtitles
0.060 per million appears in 0% of films
Written text
0.370 per million

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