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This time, our spotlight is on the idiom 「進退失所」. Its meaning and how it’s applied are described below.
There is no room to move forward or backward. A metaphor for a difficult situation. Same as “nowhere to advance or retreat”.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
jìn tuì shī suǒ
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
jeun3 teui3 sat1 so2
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