in a dilemma
The Chinese idiom, Pinyin is j ì NTU ì w é ij í, which means that both advance and retreat are in a critical situation. It comes from the poem Zhonglin Zhiji by he Jingming of Ming Dynasty.
Analysis of Idioms
It's a dilemma
The origin of Idioms
He Jingming's poem Zhonglin Zhiji in Ming Dynasty: "is it not thinking that we are in a dilemma?"
Idiom usage
It's a tight type; it's a predicate, an object and an attribute; it's a dilemma.
Chinese PinYin : jìn tuì wéi jí
in a dilemma
give one's authority to others. dào chí tài ē
ask people whether they feel hot. xū hán wèn nuǎn
history is full of such instances. shǐ bù jué shū