Dry thinking
The Chinese idiom, Pinyin is h é s ī Qi á NL ǜ, which means to rack one's brains. It's from the book "biaoyilu · Yiwen".
The origin of Idioms
Wang Zhijian of Ming Dynasty wrote in his book the art and literature of biaoyilu: "extreme thinking is writing, which is called dry thinking."
Idiom usage
As a predicate or object; used to think
Dry thinking
use every means to have an innocent person pronounced guilty - shēn wén zhōu nà
a small hole which just allows the head and the body of an animal to pass - róng tóu guò shēn
discard the old ways of life in favour of the new - gé gù lì xīn
the mansions of the nobility were inaccessible to the common man - hóu mén rú hǎi
advantageous to both public and private interest - gōng sī liǎng lì