incur a considerable or great expense(suǒ fèi bù zī)

incur a considerable or great expense

It costs a lot of money. Chinese idiom, Pinyin is Su ǒ f è IB ù Z ī, which means spending a lot of money. It comes from the Song Dynasty Su Zhe's "Qi Zhu ran Lu Huiqing".

The origin of Idioms

Su Zhe, Song Dynasty, wrote in the petition of begging to punish Lu Huiqing: "Huiqing made an order to deliver the goods to the transshipment department. In fact, it cost a lot of money without any profit."

Idiom usage

Spend a lot of money. Now some students try their best to study abroad, but they can't make use of the good educational conditions to study hard. As a result, they spend a lot of money but can't achieve anything.

Chinese PinYin : suǒ fèi bù zī