大費周折
dà​fèi​zhōu​zhé

to go to great trouble

  • created sense approved 大费周折/大費周折 · dà​fèi​zhōu​zhé · to go to great trouble — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    大费周折 / 大費周折

    dà​fèi​zhōu​zhé

    to go to great trouble

    to take a lot of time and energy to deal with a complicated or troublesome matter

    大 (literal) → 大 · dà · greatly 费 (literal) → 费/費 · fèi · to exert 周折 (literal) → 周折 · zhōu​zhé · twists and turns

    Changed: simplified, traditional, gloss, definition, pinyin, variant pinyin, variants, separable parts, decomposition

    created sense