have no sense of propriety(bù zhī jìn tuì)

have no sense of propriety

Chinese idiom, Pinyin is B ù zh ī J ì NTU ì, which means I don't know whether I should go forward or backward. It means no decision. It also describes the lack of propriety in speech and action. From Rong Zhai Xu Bi.

Analysis of Idioms

Antonym: all round

Idiom usage

How much they dislike me! Now I don't know how to advance or retreat. Why ask them to curse me? The 45th chapter of Cao Xueqin's dream of Red Mansions in Qing Dynasty

The origin of Idioms

Volume 11 of Rong Zhai Xu Bi written by Hong Mai of Song Dynasty: "Murong shaozong defeated Hou Jing. For a time, all the generals could not reach him, but besieged Yingchuan, lost his way and died in the water."

Chinese PinYin : bù zhī jìn tuì