huyết hãn

Definition

1. Noun:
   • Blood and sweat: A compound noun literally meaning "blood" and "sweat," used metaphorically to represent immense physical toil, hardship, and sacrifice expended in labor or effort.
   • Great toil / painstaking effort: Refers to the extreme difficulty and arduous labor involved in achieving something.

Usage Examples

• Noun:
  • Thành công này là kết quả của biết bao huyết hãn. (This success is the result of so much blood and sweat.)
  • Công trình được xây dựng bằng huyết hãn của người lao động. (The construction was built with the blood and sweat of the laborers.)

Advanced Usage

• The term is primarily used in formal, literary, or rhetorical contexts to emphasize the extreme cost and sacrifice behind an achievement. It is not used in casual, everyday conversation.

Variants and Related Words

• Mồ hôi nước mắt: A more common idiom with a similar meaning, translating to "sweat and tears."
  • Họ làm việc bằng mồ hôi nước mắt. (They work by sweat and tears.)

Synonyms

• Blood, sweat, and tears: Intense effort and sacrifice.
• Toil: Exhausting physical labor.
• Arduous labor: Extremely difficult and tiring work.

Related Idioms

• While "huyết hãn" itself is a compound noun used idiomatically, it is closely related to the concept of:
  • Đổ mồ hôi, sôi nước mắt: To shed sweat and boil tears, meaning to work extremely hard.

    • Anh ấy đã đổ mồ hôi, sôi nước mắt cho dự án này. (He shed sweat and tears for this project.)