toil and moil

toil and moil

Callous hands and feet, a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is pi á NSH ǒ UZH ī Z ú, which means cocoon on hands and feet. It's hard work. From Xunzi · Zi Dao.

Analysis of Idioms

Synonyms mottled, callous

The origin of Idioms

In Xunzi · Zidao: "to cultivate and cultivate trees, one must cultivate one's relatives."

Idiom usage

The money of overseas Chinese is not easy to get. It is because they have worked hard all the year round to save money. (Zou Taofen's "thousands of patriotic overseas Chinese since the Anti Japanese War"): what Yu did; he never entered the family; he never thought he was sick; he wanted to help the world; he lived by clothing and food! (Zhu Xi, Song Dynasty, the debate on Peng Li in Jiujiang) those farmers who work in the fields face the Loess and face the sky, and their hands are full of toil all day long. They are the greatest.