惨淡经营 — Chinese idiom

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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