费尽心机
Traditional form:
費盡心機
Pinyin (reading):
fèijìnxīnjī
Definitions:
- to rack one's brains for schemes (idiom)
- to beat one's brains out
Characters:
- 费 - expenses, fees; to cost, to spend; wasteful
- 尽 - to exhaust, to use up, to deplete
- 心 - heart; mind; soul
- 机 - desk; machine; moment, opportunity
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