Buddhist glossary : idiom > drop a bucket into an empty well
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Futile
  Explanation: Futile, with no use.
  Usage: Joint type; as predicate, object; containing derogatory
  Source: Song Yuan Xie, "cutting into the government to keep arms Okabayashi Sapporo child": "Cardiff were addicted to base, lack of solid; and those who are too high, in vain."
  Examples: Talk about work efficiency, ~ do not do it.
  Riddle: Earth to do good teachers do
tú láo wú yì
  In vain, with no benefits or effectiveness of the
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No. 3
  Futility of armed force in the economic
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No. 4
  徒劳无益
  读 音:tú láo wú yì )
  解 释:白费劲,没有一点用处或成效。
  出 处:宋·袁燮《伐武冈林守进治要札子》:“夫溺于卑者,固不足论;而过于高者,徒劳无益。”
  用 法:联合式;作谓语、宾语;含贬义; 指劳而无功
  示 例 1、朱自清《民众文学的讨论》:“我们创作时,得客观地了解民众底心,不可妄加己见;不然,~!”
  2、殷谦《曹雪芹同情社会底层的小人物》:“这里的菱花不但是预示后来的香菱、秋菱,同时也有镜的意思,暗喻英莲不过是甄土隐的镜中花而已,她以后的命运似乎注定要凄惨,空对雪澌澌,一是意为甄土隐爱女心切,却不知是徒劳无益,二是预言英莲一生的悲苦的命运。”
  近义词:徒劳无功、 敝鼓丧豚
  灯 谜:人间好事师做尽
English Expression
  1. n.:  drop a bucket into an empty well,  burn daylight,  shoe the goose,  wash an ass's head,  bring owls to Athens,  carry owls to Athens,  send owls to Athens,  limn on water,  futility,  make a futile effort
Thesaurus
a cup of water can't put out the fire on a carload of wood, be of no avail (=without avail), put a halter round one's neck, make a law only to fall foul of it oneself; be hoist with or by one’ s own petard; get caught in one’ s own trap, suicide, Moths Firefighting, go for very little, Coke boil lapidation, Eggs and stone fight, whoever plays with fire will perish by fire, Cannibalism undesirable consequence, dig one’ s own grave, bring blame on oneself, make self-criticism as one who draws a fire against oneself, art of writing a composition Self-harm, a _drop_ in the bucket
Antonym
Fain hair, Highly effective, Chuikang See m, Soratani microphone, be immediately effective, Tatemi result, Effective
Containing Phrases
to no purposemilk the ramrun after two hares