作嫁衣裳
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Definition
作嫁衣裳:
Literally means:
making bridal clothes for other folk
Actually means:
to toil for others" accomplishment
It originally refers to those poor women who worked hard and made all sorts of beautiful wedding dresses not for themselves bur for others.
It figuratively means that all the toils and hard work are for others.
原指贫穷的女人辛辛苦苦做成的漂亮衣服都是别人出嫁穿的,而不是自己的。
比喻自己的辛苦和忙碌完全是为了别人。多用来指以自己的辛勤劳动成全或造就了别人。
Example
These old editors, a lifetime for people to marry clothes, specifically for others to change the manuscript, is with their own labor into someone else's unseeded hero.
He saw that his years of painstaking training of students have been out of the country, inevitably there is a feeling for foreigners to marry clothes.
His job is to marry and practice with these world table tennis champions, neither name nor profit, but he has no regrets.