Bashu wanwei(bá hú zhì wěi)

Bashu wanwei

Ba Hu Wei, a Chinese idiom, is pronounced B á h ú zh ì w ě I, which means that it is in a dilemma. Also known as "back and forth.".

Interpretation of Idioms

Postscript: step on it. Hu: the drooping meat under the jaws of mammals. : fall.

The origin of Idioms

"The book of songs · CHENFENG · Langba" says: "the wolf Ba has its Hu and its tail." It means that when the wolf goes forward, he steps on his Hu (the meat hanging under his chin), and when he goes back, he falls down with his tail.

Idiom usage

The metaphor is in a dilemma.

words whose meaning is similar

Back and forth, back and forth

Examples

However, he believed in the past too much, and wanted to move money in a wrong way, so he disobeyed many things, causing trouble at the end. ——Li Gang, Song Dynasty

Chinese PinYin : bá hú zhì wěi