大费周章
dà​fèi​zhōu​zhāng

to go to a lot of trouble

  • created reference approved 大费周章/大費周章 → 大费周折/大費周折 (synonym) — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    大费周章 / 大費周章 dà​fèi​zhōu​zhāng

    大费周折 / 大費周折 dà​fèi​zhōu​zhé

    synonym

    Changed: source (simp), source (trad), source pinyin, target (simp), target (trad), target pinyin, type

    created reference

  • created sense approved 大费周章/大費周章 · dà​fèi​zhōu​zhāng · to go to a lot of trouble — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    大费周章 / 大費周章

    dà​fèi​zhōu​zhāng

    to go to a lot of trouble

    to take great pains; to go through much trouble or effort to handle a complicated or tedious matter

    大 (literal) → 大 · dà · greatly 费 (literal) → 费/費 · fèi · to exert 周章 (literal) → 周章 · zhōu​zhāng · trouble

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

    created sense