旦旦而伐
dàn​dàn'ér​fá

to wear oneself out

  • created sense approved 旦旦而伐 · dàn​dàn'ér​fá · to wear oneself out — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    旦旦而伐

    dàn​dàn'ér​fá

    to wear oneself out

    to chop (trees) every day; a metaphor for continuous destruction or the gradual ruin of one's physical health (often through dissipation or excess)

    旦旦 (reduplication) → 旦 · dàn · day 而 (literal) → 而 · ér · [adverbial linker] 伐 (literal) → 伐 · fá · to fell

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

    created sense