磨穿铁砚

Explanation: The iron in the ink-stone are worn out. Analogy to study hard, perseverance. 　　Usage: Verb-object type; for the predicate; with compliment 　　Source: Yuan Fan Kang "Bamboo Boat" First off: "take cold felt broken, worn out iron stone. Boasted by the history such as the flow, pick up his bruising, close at hand do not have to worry about." 　　Examples: Felt cold to sit broken, ~. (Yuan Fan Zian "Bamboo Boat" the first break) Thesaurus:  pinch -nies, persevere, an iron pestle can be ground down to a needle, Constant effort yields sure success, Time tries all., Tiechuchengzhen, meticulous job, economize to avoid running short, With a strong will power, nothing is impossible, Jemmy Grind in acu-, foreknowledge Antonym Group:  imbroglio, disarray, A collapse blindness, Dubious, be ambiguous and vague; tergiversation, extravagant; be wasteful; spend with a free hand, muck-up, blur, have a beginning but no end, start sth. but fail to carry it through, number of things mixed together without order, bedimming, (to utter, do, etc. something) all of a sudden, abruptly, or inexplicably, one's likes and dislikes caducity, soft in the head, Anticlimax