全力以赴

• Pinyin: quán lì yǐ fù
• Hanzi breakdown: 全 = 人 + 王 (complete); 力 = 力 (strength); 以 = 人 + 一 (with/by means of); 赴 = 走 + 卜 (go toward/rush to)

Meaning

To go all out; to spare no effort; to commit all of one's strength and resources toward achieving a goal.

A chengyu expressing total commitment without reservation. Common in sports, business, crisis management, and inspirational contexts. Implies not just trying hard but fully deploying every available resource. Often used to signal collective mobilisation.

Examples

1. 面对行业寒冬，整个团队全力以赴，终于在最后期限前完成了产品的迭代升级。 In the face of an industry downturn, the entire team went all out and finally finished the product upgrade before the deadline.
2. 运动员们全力以赴地备战即将到来的全国锦标赛，每天的训练强度都在稳步提升。 The athletes are going all out to prepare for the upcoming national championships, with the intensity of their daily training steadily increasing.
3. 公司董事会表态，将全力以赴推动这次并购交易的顺利完成，争取在年内完成全部审批程序。 The company’s board stated it will spare no effort to ensure the acquisition is completed smoothly, aiming to finish all approval procedures within the year.

Usage Guide

Context: sports, business, crisis response, competition

Tone: positive

Do Say

• 救援队在接到任务通知后立即集结出发，在灾区全力以赴地展开搜救工作，争分夺秒抢救被困群众。(Immediately after receiving the mission notification, the rescue team assembled and set out, going all out in the disaster area to conduct search-and-rescue operations and race against time to save those trapped.)
• 创业初期资金严重不足，但创始人团队全力以赴，最终用三年时间将公司从一个车库小作坊发展成行业知名品牌。(Severely underfunded in the early days of the start-up, the founding team went all out, ultimately building the company from a small garage operation into a well-known industry brand within three years.)

Don't Say

• 他全力以赴地睡觉 — 全力以赴 is reserved for meaningful efforts toward a challenging goal; applying it to trivial or passive activities is unnatural and sounds absurd

Origin & History

全力 (full strength) + 以赴 (go toward/commit to) — committing and directing one's complete strength toward a goal

Cultural Context

Generation: All ages

Social background: Universal