煞费苦心
shà​fèi​kǔ​xīn

to take great pains

  • created reference approved 煞费苦心/煞費苦心 → 挖空心思 (synonym) — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    煞费苦心 / 煞費苦心 shà​fèi​kǔ​xīn

    挖空心思 wā​kōng​xīn​si

    synonym

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

    created reference

  • created sense approved 煞费苦心/煞費苦心 · shà​fèi​kǔ​xīn · to take great pains — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    煞费苦心 / 煞費苦心

    shà​fèi​kǔ​xīn

    to take great pains

    to take a lot of trouble; to put in a lot of effort; to rack one's brains to accomplish something

    煞 (literal) → 煞 · shà · very 费 (literal) → 费/費 · fèi · to exert 苦心 (literal) → 苦心 · kǔ​xīn · painstaking effort

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

    created sense