鞠躬尽瘁

jū gōng jìn cuì

to give your all until you are spent

Character by character

鞠jū
bend

躬gōng
the body

尽jìn
exhaust

瘁cuì
toil

他为这所学校鞠躬尽瘁，工作了四十年。

He gave his all to this school, working there for forty years.

Tone: positive (praise).

诸葛亮: 鞠躬尽瘁，死而后已: to toil until death.

Learn this in Lesson 209 · HSK 9+: 四大名著 (The four great novels)

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