上天无路,入地无门 [ shàng tiān wú lù,rù dì wú mén ]

基本释义

形容无路可走的窘迫处境。

出 处

宋·释悟明《联灯会要》卷二十八:“进前则触途成滞,退后即噎气填胸,直得上天无路,入地无门。”

英文翻译

to be trapped in a hopeless situation; lit. there is no road to the sky, nor door into the earth (idiom); fig. to be at the end of one's rope