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费力不讨好
fèi​lì​bù​tǎo​hǎo

thankless task

Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents
费力不讨好 費力不討好 fèi​lì​bù​tǎo​hǎo
thankless task
to put in a great deal of effort for little or no reward; an arduous and unrewarding job

Frequency

Written text
0.228 per million

Cross-References

Referenced by

  • 讨好 tǎo​hǎo

Sources

Frequency data
BCC Corpus (BLCU)