机关算尽
      Explanation: Body: well, clever tricks. Analogy exhausted mind.
      Usage: The main predicate; as predicate; containing derogatory
      Source: Song Huang Ting "cowboy song" poem: "How many Chang Ming Like, authorities exhausted as monarch."
      Examples: ~ Too much, forget lost his tail. (Qing Cao Xueqin's "Dream of Red Mansions" The Fifth)
  • Thesaurus:  rack one's brains in scheming, body eat, eat thinking