draw water with a bamboo basket

It's all in vain

It is a Chinese idiom. Its pronunciation is zh ú L á nd ǎ Shu ǐ y ì ch á NGK ō ng. It is also used as a metaphor for wasting effort, no effect and no effort. It is not appropriate to focus on the method used. It comes from Hanshan's poem of Tang Dynasty.

idiom

It's all in vain

Pinyin

zhúlándǎshuǐyìchángkōng

source

Hanshan's poem in Tang Dynasty: "I see that if I hide from the Han people, it's like a basket full of water. I'll go home in one breath. How ever was there in the basket?" Liang Bin's "red flag spectrum": "well, this industry has come to nothing

Examples

You've put in so much effort for this, don't get the result of nothing.

english

drawwaterwithabamboobasket;allinvain;

Korean

헛수고를하다