埋头苦干 — Chinese idiom
埋头苦干
mái tóu kǔ gàn
Traditional: 埋頭苦幹
Meaning
- to bury oneself in work ; to be engrossed in work
- to make an all-out effort
- up to the neck in work
Character by character
- 埋máito bury; to conceal; to plant
- 头tóuhead; chief, boss; first, top
- 苦kǔbitter; hardship, suffering
- 干gànarid, dry; to oppose; to offend; to invade
Idioms sharing a character
- 葬玉埋香 zàng yù mái xiāng
- 三天两头 sān tiān liǎng tóu
- 三头六臂 sān tóu liù bì
- 事到临头 shì dào lín tóu
- 傻头傻脑 shǎ tóu shǎ nǎo
- 冤家对头 yuān jiā duì tóu
- 出人头地 chū rén tóu dì
- 初露头角 chū lù tóu jiǎo
- 劈头盖脸 pī tóu gài liǎn
- 吴头楚尾 Wú tóu Chǔ wěi
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