惨淡经营 — Chinese idiom
惨淡经营
cǎn dàn jīng yíng
Traditional: 慘淡經營
Meaning
- to manage by painstaking effort
Character by character
- 惨cǎnmiserable, wretched; cruel, inhuman
- 淡dànwatery, dilute; insipid, tasteless
- 经jīngthe classics; to experience, to undergo
- 营yíngcamp, barracks, army; to run, to manage
Idioms sharing a character
- 伤心惨目 shāng xīn cǎn mù
- 惨不忍睹 cǎn bù rěn dǔ
- 惨不忍闻 cǎn bù rěn wén
- 惨无人道 cǎn wú rén dào
- 惨绝人寰 cǎn jué rén huán
- 绿惨红愁 lǜ cǎn hóng chóu
- 平淡无奇 píng dàn wú qí
- 淡妆浓抹 dàn zhuāng nóng mǒ
- 淡泊名利 dàn bó míng lì
- 淡泊明志 dàn bó míng zhì
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