進退不得

zeon3 teoi3 bat1 dak1

can't advance or retreat (idiom); no room for maneuver · stalled · in a dilemma

2 Written Forms

Meanings

  1. can't advance or retreat (idiom); no room for maneuver
  2. stalled
  3. in a dilemma
  4. stuck in a difficult position

Written Forms

進退不得Traditional · Main Form
进退不得Alternate Form

CC-Canto and the CC-CEDICT Cantonese readings are copyright (c) 2015-17 Pleco Software Incorporated, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0. CC-CEDICT is copyright its maintainers, with portions from the original CEDICT database copyright (c) 1997, 1998 Paul Andrew Denisowski, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0.

Filtered, regrouped by canonical lemma, and reformatted as an immutable web projection. Source gloss text is not rewritten.

View Source CC BY-SA 3.0