用尽心机
yòng​jìn​xīn​jī

to rack one's brains

  • created sense approved 用尽心机/用盡心機 · yòng​jìn​xīn​jī · to rack one's brains — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    用尽心机 / 用盡心機

    yòng​jìn​xīn​jī

    to rack one's brains

    To try every possible means or tax one's ingenuity to the limit in order to achieve a goal

    用尽 (literal) → 用尽/用盡 · yòng​jìn · to use up 心机 (literal) → 心机/心機 · xīn​jī · scheming

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

    created sense