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踏破铁鞋无觅处，得来全不费工夫
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Definitions
- 1. to travel far and wide looking for sth, only to find it easily
Child Words of 踏破铁鞋无觅处，得来全不费工夫
to reside
structural particle: used after a verb (or adjective as main verb), linking it to following phrase indicating effect, degree, possibility etc
all
man
no; not so
to spend a great deal of time and effort
broken
iron (metal)
to cost
not to have
shoe
see 踏實|踏实[tā shi]
to tread
to have to
work
period of time (may be months, or mere seconds)
place
(classical) this, that
lit. to wear out one's iron shoes (idiom)
to come
to obtain
(literary) to seek