You can't get up or down(shàng bù zháo tiān，xià bù zháo dì)

You can't get up or down

If you can't reach the sky, you can't reach the ground. It's a metaphor of no landing at both ends.

Pinyin

shànɡbùzháotiān，xiàbùzháodì

explain

That is to say, out of range. It's a metaphor for having no land at both ends.

source

"Han Feizi · Jielao": "the upper part does not belong to heaven, but the lower part does not belong to the earth."

Examples

Tang Kelin said that there was no place in the world, which made everyone puzzled. The eighth chapter of mists by Zheng Yi

words whose meaning is similar

No village before, no shop behind

grammar

Complex sentence; attributive, clause; derogatory

Chinese PinYin : shàng bù zháo tiān，xià bù zháo dì