It's all in vain
As a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is t ó ur è NJI ē x ū, which means dealing with affairs with ease. It comes from Zhuangzi health preserving master.
Analysis of Idioms
Be at ease
Idiom usage
As an object or attribute; used in figurative sentences
The origin of Idioms
In Zhuangzi health preserving master, it is said that paoding jieniu is not a whole cow three years later, but its joints are empty. "There is leisure in those joints, but there is no thickness in the blade. If there is leisure in those joints, there must be room for the blade to recover.".
It's all in vain
distinguished from the common run - yōng zhōng jiǎo jiǎo
try to stop the passage of time - cháng shéng jì rì
destroy the old and establish the new - pò jiù lì xīn
There is no house to build a beam - méi wū jià liáng