to bring trouble on oneself
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see 自食惡果|自食恶果[]
expert craft from hard practice (idiom) / hard-won skill / A masterpiece demands suffering.
to ponder earnestly / to give a lot of thought to sth
good medicine tastes bitter (idiom) / fig. frank criticism is hard to swallow
to struggle arduously
leading a plain, hardworking life (idiom)
see 含辛茹苦[]
excruciating
to feign and complain bitterly of being poverty stricken (idiom)
to visit the poor and ask about their suffering (idiom)
to make a hard living as unskilled laborer
(slang) to be behind bars
(lit.) sour, sweet, bitter and spicy (idiom) / (fig.) all kinds of flavors / the joys and sorrows of life
to abandon suffering and obtain happiness (Buddhism)
Bitter Herbs, 1958 novel by Feng Deying 馮德英|冯德英[], made into a film in 1965
variant of 孤苦伶仃[]
Heaven will not disappoint the person who tries (idiom). If you try hard, you're bound to succeed eventually.
Peruvian ground-cherry / cape gooseberry / Physalis peruviana
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