进退为难
Traditional form:
進退為難
Pinyin (reading):
jìntuìwéinán
Definitions:
- no room to advance or to retreat (idiom); without any way out of a dilemma
- trapped
- in an impossible situation
Characters:
- 进 - to advance, to make progress; to come in, to enter
- 退 - to retreat, to step back, to withdraw
- 为 - to do, to act; to handle, to govern; to be
- 难 - hard, difficult, arduous; unable
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