忙活
máng huo
Pinyin

Definition

忙活
 - 
máng huo
  1. to be really busy
  2. pressing business

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

忙
máng
  1. 1 busy
  2. 2 hurriedly
  3. 3 to hurry
  4. 4 to rush
活
huó
  1. 1 to live
  2. 2 alive
  3. 3 living
  4. 4 work
  5. 5 workmanship
活动
huó dòng
  1. 1 to exercise
  2. 2 to move about
  3. 3 to operate
  4. 4 to use connections (personal influence)
  5. 5 loose
  6. 6 shaky
  7. 7 active
  8. 8 movable
  9. 9 activity
  10. 10 campaign
  11. 11 maneuver
  12. 12 behavior
  13. 13 classifier: 项 xiàng
  14. 14 classifier: 个 gè
生活
shēng huó
  1. 1 life
  2. 2 activity
  3. 3 to live
  4. 4 livelihood
匆忙
cōng máng
  1. 1 hasty
  2. 2 hurried

Idioms (19)

不慌不忙
bù huāng bù máng
  1. 1 calm and unhurried (idiom); composed
  2. 2 to take matters calmly
不知死活
bù zhī sǐ huó
  1. 1 to act recklessly (idiom)
你死我活
nǐ sǐ wǒ huó
  1. 1 lit. you die, I live (idiom); irreconcilable adversaries
  2. 2 two parties cannot coexist
好死不如赖活着
hǎo sǐ bù rú lài huó zhe
  1. 1 better a bad life than a good death (idiom)
忙中有失
máng zhōng yǒu shī
  1. 1 rushed work leads to errors (idiom)

Sample Sentences

哦，原来是这样啊。那得不到小费，就等于白忙活一场了。
ò ，yuánlái shì zhèyàng a 。nà débudào xiǎofèi ，jiù děngyú bái mánghuo yī chǎng le 。
Oh, so it's like that. Then if they don't get tips, it's the same as if they did all that work for nothing.
Go to Lesson