计穷力竭
      Explanation: Poor, exhausted: to do. Scheme, forces are exhausted.
      Usage: Joint type; as the predicate attribute; means are exhausted and power scheme
      Source: Ming Shinai "Water Margin" 96 back: "Qiao Daoqing poor exhaustive account, then the mountains with two to Chiru."
      Examples: ~ Demon king laughed and said that monkeys, no place to ask for help, was killed outright to have. "★ Ming Wu Cheng-en," Journey to the West, "the sixty-sixth back
  • Thesaurus:  Total poor power to do, one's literary talent is at an ebb; have lost one's talent; one's inpiration has dried up, Jiang Yan to have exhausted one's talent, Only Exhaust chile exhausted, at one's wits' `end not knowing what to do or say because of worry or desperation
  • Antonym Group:  person distinguished from the common run, Clank Jiaojiao