費工夫

费工夫
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 費工 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

踏破鐵鞋無覓處，得來全不費工夫 tàpòtiěxiéwúmìchù,déláiquánbùfèigōngfu to travel far and wide looking for sth, only to find it easily

Related entries

苛求 kēqiú demanding
勞心勞力 láoxīnláolì
  1. to tax one's mind and body
  2. demanding (work)
  3. dedicated (worker)
  4. hard-working
難纏 nánchán
  1. (usu. of people) difficult
  2. demanding
  3. troublesome
  4. unreasonable
  5. hard to deal with
事兒 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

從難從嚴 cóngnáncóngyán
  1. demanding and strict (idiom)
  2. exacting
苛 kē
  1. severe
  2. exacting