穷于应付
qióng​yú​yìng​fù

to struggle to cope

  • created sense approved 穷于应付/窮於應付 · qióng​yú​yìng​fù · to struggle to cope — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    穷于应付 / 窮於應付

    qióng​yú​yìng​fù

    to struggle to cope

    to be hard-pressed to deal with a situation; to be at one's wits' end; at a loss how to handle complex or frequent problems

    qióng​yú​yìng​fu

    穷 (literal) → 穷/窮 · qióng · hard-pressed 于 (literal) → 于/於 · yú · in 应付 (literal) → 应付/應付 · yìng​fu · to deal with

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

    created sense