be helpless and in the greatest straits(jì qióng lǜ jí)

be helpless and in the greatest straits

As a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is j ì Qi ó NGL ǜ J í, which means to be exhaustive. It comes from the biography of Lu Su in the annals of the Three Kingdoms.

The origin of Idioms

In the biography of Lu Su, Wu Zhi of the Three Kingdoms, Pei Songzhi quoted Wu Shu, Wu Zhao of the Three Kingdoms, as saying: "the people of Yuzhou should not be the same school. They are extremely worried about poverty. Their ambition is weak and they want to run far away. They can't expect this."

Idiom usage

Chapter 66 of the romance of the Three Kingdoms by Luo Guanzhong of Ming Dynasty: "the monarch and the Marquis were defeated by the emperor and the uncle, and they were extremely worried about poverty, and they wanted to flee far away." At the beginning of the war, the monarch and the Marquis were defeated by the emperor and uncle. They were extremely worried about poverty and wanted to flee far away. The sixty sixth chapter of romance of the Three Kingdoms by Luo Guanzhong in Ming Dynasty

Chinese PinYin : jì qióng lǜ jí