piled-up tiles and coiled ropes—redundant words
Chinese idiom, Pinyin is l ě IW ǎ Ji é sh é ng, which means to compare useless words. It comes from Zhuangzi's parallel thumb.
Idiom usage
Be an attributive; refer to useless words
The origin of Idioms
Chuang Tzu's parallel thumb: "parallel in debate, a lot of trouble, dart sentence wandering between the same and different, and I have a little reputation useless words is not it? And Yang Mo is already
piled-up tiles and coiled ropes—redundant words
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keep going by painstaking effort - cǎn dàn jīng yíng