keep one 's head above water
Striving to be strong is a Chinese word pronounced f ā f è NT ú Qi á ng, which means to make up one's mind and strive for progress. It is generally used with "striving to be strong". From people's daily.
Analysis of Idioms
To be angry and to be strong; to do nothing
Idiom usage
Serial verb; as predicate and attribute; with commendatory meaning
The origin of Idioms
People's daily, 1959.9.3: "working hard and self-reliance, of course, plays an extremely important role in changing the poor and backward appearance of the backward teams."
keep one 's head above water
exclude the difficulty and anxiety - pái yōu jiě nán
be really a most unusual and quite individual beauty - fēng huá jué dài
remain perplexed despite much thought - bǎi sī mò jiě
save people from the abyss of suffering - jiù mín yú shuǐ huǒ