穷途末路
Traditional form:
窮途末路
Pinyin (reading):
qióngtúmòlù
Definitions:
- lit. the path exhausted, the end of the road (idiom); an impasse
- in a plight with no way out
- things have reached a dead end
Characters:
- 穷 - poor, destitute; to exhaust
- 途 - way, road, path, journey, course
- 末 - end, final, last; insignificant
- 路 - road, path, street; journey
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