相持不下
Traditional form:
相持不下
Pinyin (reading):
xiāngchíbùxià
Definitions:
- at a stalemate
- deadlocked
- in unrelenting mutual opposition
Characters:
- 相 - mutual, reciprocal; equal; each other
- 持 - to hold, to support, to sustain
- 不 - no, not, un-; negative prefix
- 下 - below, underneath; inferior; to bring down; next
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