







苦绷苦拽 is a Chinese idiom (chengyu) meaning “to struggle hard to make ends meet, often by scrounging or borrowing from various sources; to painstakingly scrape together resources, especially money”. Literally, “struggling to stretch and pull”.

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Open the tool →苦绷苦拽 (kǔ bēng kǔ zhuāi) is a Chinese idiom (chengyu) meaning “to struggle hard to make ends meet, often by scrounging or borrowing from various sources; to painstakingly scrape together resources, especially money”.
苦绷苦拽 is pronounced kǔ bēng kǔ zhuāi in Mandarin Chinese.
Literally, 苦绷苦拽 means “struggling to stretch and pull”. It is used to mean “to struggle hard to make ends meet, often by scrounging or borrowing from various sources; to painstakingly scrape together resources, especially money”.
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