get half the results with double the effort
Half the effort with half the effort is a Chinese idiom, pronounced sh ì B è Ig ō NGB à n.
The origin of Idioms
In Li Baojia's officialdom in the Qing Dynasty, "we should do good deeds, educate people by good books, and get twice the result with twice the effort."
Idiom usage
Is it not true that the folk enterprise should be put in order and developed? The third chapter of Liang Qichao's the future of new China in Qing Dynasty
get half the results with double the effort
have a heart-to-heart talk after a long separation - yè yǔ duì chuáng