spend one 's life in fruitless efforts

spend one 's life in fruitless efforts

The Chinese idiom, Pinyin is Su ì Yu è Cu ō Tu ó, which means to waste time by doing nothing. It comes from Guanyuan Ji, clothes given by Empress Dowager.

The origin of Idioms

"If I can't revenge and die, I will bury the leopard of the dragon family and waste my time to die."

Analysis of Idioms

Idle away one's time

Idiom usage

In the derogatory sense, it means to waste time by doing nothing. How about fame and fortune? ~, several storms, several sunny days. --In the Qing Dynasty, Zheng Xie's "waves washing sand · he Hong Jue, fan Xiaoxiang's eight sceneries" and in the Ming Dynasty, Xu Sanjie's "Jie Xia Ji · GUI Yi": "you and I are floating in the south of the five ridges, and the years are wasted, and the sound and the book are broken."

Idiom story

In the Tang Dynasty, Li Qi, a 40 year old poet, was a Jinshi and a magistrate of Xinxiang County. After he failed in his official career, he resigned and went to seclusion, specializing in poetry creation. His friend Wei Wan went to the capital for an examination to seek fame. He wrote a farewell poem to send Wei Wan to the capital: "the dawn of Guancheng is drawing near, and the anvil of Yuyuan is rising in the evening. Don't see Chang'an happy place, empty another time easy to waste