行百里者半九十 xíngbǎilǐzhěbànjiǔshí the last bit of a task is the hardest Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents 行百里者半九十 xíngbǎilǐzhěbànjiǔshí the last bit of a task is the hardest literally meaning that ninety 里 lǐ is only halfway on a hundred-mile journey; used as a metaphor to describe how a task becomes more difficult as it nears completion, or to encourage someone to persist until the very end Frequency Written text 0.064 per million Sources Frequency data BCC Corpus (BLCU)
行百里者半九十 xíngbǎilǐzhěbànjiǔshí the last bit of a task is the hardest literally meaning that ninety 里 lǐ is only halfway on a hundred-mile journey; used as a metaphor to describe how a task becomes more difficult as it nears completion, or to encourage someone to persist until the very end Frequency Written text 0.064 per million Sources Frequency data BCC Corpus (BLCU)
