tax one 's ingenuity(fèi jìn xīn jī)

tax one 's ingenuity

Chinese idiom, Pinyin is f è ij ì nx ī NJ ī, which means to dig one's brains out. It comes from Zhu Wen's collection of official documents and Yang Zi's direct book.

Notes on Idioms

Scheming: scheming

The origin of Idioms

In Zhu Xi's collection of Zhu Wen's official documents and Yang Zi's Zhishu of Song Dynasty, it is said that "in recent years, there has been a kind of discussion, which is intended to revolve between the two, to ask each other, and to make painstaking efforts."

Idiom usage

The verb object type is used as predicate and object to make people think and plan. Ming Shizhen's Ming Feng Ji, the fourth: "if you don't give in to what you like, how can you reuse it? So I went to great lengths to find out that today is his birthday, and I was sent to pour a pair of birthday candles. "

Chinese PinYin : fèi jìn xīn jī