凿壁偷光 (鑿壁偷光) záo bì tōu guāng

záo bì tōu guāng set phrase to pierce the wall to steal a light; to study diligently in the face of hardship
Domain: Idiom 成语
Notes: (CC-CEDICT '鑿壁偷光')

Word is mentioned most frequently in

Truncated for common words

• Scroll 2 Rentian Yan Mu 人天眼目 — count: 1
• Scroll 1 Quotations from Chan Master Yunmen Kuangzhen 雲門匡真禪師廣錄 — count: 1
• Scroll 1 Wan Song Laoren Ping Chang Tian Tong Jue Heshang Song Gu Congrong An Lu 萬松老人評唱天童覺和尚頌古從容庵錄 — count: 1 , has English translation

Collocations

• 凿壁偷光时 (鑿壁偷光時) 問鑿壁偷光時如何 — Quotations from Chan Master Yunmen Kuangzhen 雲門匡真禪師廣錄, Scroll 1 — count: 2