竹篮打水一场空
zhú​lán​dǎ​shuǐ​yī​chǎng​kōng

all in vain

  • created sense approved 竹篮打水一场空/竹籃打水一場空 · zhú​lán​dǎ​shuǐ​yī​chǎng​kōng · all in vain — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    竹篮打水一场空 / 竹籃打水一場空

    zhú​lán​dǎ​shuǐ​yī​chǎng​kōng

    all in vain

    Drawing water with a bamboo basket; to struggle only for it all to come to nothing or be a complete failure.

    竹篮 (literal) → 竹篮/竹籃 · zhú​lán · bamboo basket 打水 (literal) → 打水 · dǎ​shuǐ · to draw water 一场空 (literal) → 一场空/一場空 · yī​cháng​kōng · all in vain

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

    created sense