费力不讨好
fèi​lì​bù​tǎo​hǎo

thankless task

  • created sense approved 费力不讨好/費力不討好 · fèi​lì​bù​tǎo​hǎo · thankless task — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    费力不讨好 / 費力不討好

    fèi​lì​bù​tǎo​hǎo

    thankless task

    to put in a great deal of effort for little or no reward; an arduous and unrewarding job

    费力 (literal) → 费力/費力 · fèi​lì · strenuous 不 (literal) → 不 · bù · not 讨好 (literal) → 讨好/討好 · tǎo​hǎo · to be rewarded with good results

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

    created sense