- no room to advance or to retreat (idiom); without any way out of a dilemma
- trapped
- in an impossible situation
Characters
- 进 (進): to go forward; to advance; to go in; to enter; to put in; to submit; to take in; to admit; (math.) base of a number system; classifier for sections in a building or residential compound
- 退 (退): to retreat; to withdraw; to reject; to return (sth); to decline
- 两 (兩): two; both; some; a few; tael, unit of weight equal to 50 grams (modern) or 1⁄16 of a catty 斤[jin1] (old)
- 难 (難): difficult (to...); problem; difficulty; difficult; not good
Resources
- Wiktionary: 进退两难
- MDBG: 进退两难
- Examples with 进退两难 on Tatoeba
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