想方设法
xiǎngfāng-shèfǎ
Meaning
- to think up every possible method (idiom); to devise ways and means
- to try this, that and the other
Example
她想方设法以一己之力完成了工作。
She managed to finish the work on her own.
Example sentence from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0).
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