水磨工夫

Explanation: Finely ground with water. Describe the work of intensive, time-consuming a lot. 　　Usage: Partial official; as object; describe the careful and meticulous about something 　　Source: Qing Chen Que "Comrade two Cambodian": "Scholars and the patience of things in human relations, with some water mill work, future science of statecraft, the more the client does not, how their lives to speak of peace?" 　　Examples: The first should spend some ~, so that they nurture, not hasty in breaking that arouse his suspicions, not against the United States. (Qing Li Baojia "A Short History of Civilization," first chapter) Thesaurus:  pinch -nies, persevere, an iron pestle can be ground down to a needle, Constant effort yields sure success, Time tries all., Tiechuchengzhen, grind through an inkstone, long years of study, 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