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费力不讨好
fèi lì bù tǎo hǎo
What 费力不讨好 means
- arduous and thankless task (idiom); strenuous and unrewarding
The characters in 费力不讨好
- 费fèito cost; to spend; fee
- 力lìpower; force; strength
- 不bùno; not so; (bound form) not; un-
- 讨tǎoto invite; to provoke; to demand or ask for
- 好hǎogood; appropriate; proper; all right!
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