费尽心机 (fèi jìn xīn jī) | Meaning: to rack one's brains for schemes (idiom) | Chinese Idiom with Pinyin & Origin

to take a lot of trouble (idiom); painstaking · at the cost of a lot of effort煞费苦心shà fèi kǔ xīn

to tax one's ingenuity用尽心机yòng jìn xīn jī

to think up every possible method (idiom); to devise ways and means · to try this, that and the other想方设法xiǎng fāng shè fǎ

to dig for thoughts (idiom); to search everything for an answer · to rack one's brains挖空心思wā kōng xīn si

rack one's brains in vain · have had all one's pains for nothing · rack one's brains without results · waste one's efforts · fruitless efforts · go on a wild goose chase枉费心机wǎng fèi xīn jī

to make painstaking efforts (idiom); after much trouble · to work hard at sth苦心孤诣kǔ xīn gū yì

to rack one's brains for schemes (idiom) · to beat one's brains out

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