wear out iron shoes -- spare no effort in searching for sth.

wear out iron shoes -- spare no effort in searching for sth.

Stepping on iron shoes, Chinese idiom, Pinyin is t à P à Ti à Xi é, which means to find something with great difficulty and great effort. It's from a warning to the world.

The origin of Idioms

Feng Menglong of Ming Dynasty wrote a general warning to the world: "it's just:" if you step on the iron shoes, you can't find any place, and it's easy to get them! "

Idiom usage

Examples

All kinds of reference books are better to be prepared for use than to be in a hurry and break the iron shoes. Cao Jinghua's collection of flying flowers: a sigh of the past