劳师动众
      Explanation: LO: fatigue, hard; division, all: the military; action: action, and mobilization. The original large number of troops that move, now refers to the use of a lot of manpower.
      Usage: Joint type; as predicate, complement; containing derogatory
      Source: Ming Wu Cheng-en, "Journey to the West" 43 back: "brother, both to the marriage, and how they involve so many people?"
      Examples: What this little bit of magic to the small, then trouble ~, would be too ridiculous. ★ Qing Wu Jian "Strange two decades," the sixty-eighth back
  • Thesaurus:  stage a war, harass the people and drain the treasury, Half the force times, one ant hole may cause the collapse of a thousand li dyke, fatigue Had [would] as lief ...as capture, to make big investment for small returns
  • Antonym Group:  Begging pulp liquor, Profit The times