當牛作馬 Save Sign in to save words Simplified: 当牛作马 dāngniúzuòmǎ ㄉㄤ ㄋㄧㄡˊ ㄗㄨㄛˋ ㄇㄚˇ to work like a horse and toil like an ox fig. to slave for sb Character by character 當(dāng)be 牛(niú)surname Niu 作(zuò)do 馬(mǎ)surname Ma A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0