费工夫

費工夫
fèigōngfu
  1. to spend a great deal of time and effort
  2. (of a task) demanding
  3. exacting

CEDICT

to take time and energy; to be time-consuming; to be exacting; to be demanding

Wiktionary

Entry Composition

1 费工 fèigōng to take a lot of work
=2 夫 fū
  1. husband
  2. man
  3. manual worker
  4. conscripted laborer (old)
=2 夫 fú
  1. (classical) this, that
  2. he, she, they
  3. (exclamatory final particle)
  4. (initial particle, introduces an opinion)

Containing this entry

踏破铁鞋无觅处，得来全不费工夫 tàpòtiěxiéwúmìchù,déláiquánbùfèigōngfu to travel far and wide looking for sth, only to find it easily

Related entries

苛求 kēqiú demanding
劳心劳力 láoxīnláolì
  1. to tax one's mind and body
  2. demanding (work)
  3. dedicated (worker)
  4. hard-working
难缠 nánchán
  1. (usu. of people) difficult
  2. demanding
  3. troublesome
  4. unreasonable
  5. hard to deal with
事儿 shìr
  1. one's employment
  2. business
  3. matter that needs to be settled
  4. (northern dialect) (of a person) demanding
  5. trying
  6. troublesome
  7. erhua variant of 事 shì

classifiers: 件, 樁

事儿被汤姆说中了。

Tom's prediction was correct.

Source: Tatoeba

从难从严 cóngnáncóngyán
  1. demanding and strict (idiom)
  2. exacting
苛 kē
  1. severe
  2. exacting