1.
hard work; trouble; pains; effort
The trouble or effort one takes on behalf of others or for a purpose; laborious work that requires significant effort.
お骨折りいただき、ありがとうございました。
Thank you for all the trouble you took.
骨折りが報われた。
My hard work paid off.
Forms
- 骨 (bone) + 折り (breaking, from 折る): literally "bone-breaking" work
- 骨を折る: to take pains, to go to trouble
Common collocations
- 骨折りが報われる: one's efforts pay off
- お骨折り: your trouble, your efforts (polite, when thanking someone)
- 骨折り損: wasted effort
Common expressions
- 骨折り損のくたびれ儲け: all that work for nothing (literally "a loss for the effort, a profit of tiredness")
Watch out
- 骨折 without り is a bone fracture. The polite form is お骨折り, not ご骨折り.