灯草架屋,白费力气 燈草架屋,白費力氣 燈草架屋,白費力氣

building a house with lamp rush: wasted effort

Saying俗语俗語

Two-part saying歇后语歇後語 · Rarely used now

Meaning
Work that is futile and achieves nothing.
Simplified
灯草架屋,白费力气
Traditional (Taiwan)
燈草架屋,白費力氣
Pinyin
dēngcǎo jiàwū, báifèi lìqi
Bopomofo
ㄉㄥ ㄘㄠˇ ㄐㄧㄚˋ ㄨ,ㄅㄞˊ ㄈㄟˋ ㄌㄧˋ ˙ㄑㄧ

Written with HSK 4 vocabulary, at CEFR level B1.

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