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上天无路,入地无门

shàng tiān wú lù , rù dì wú mén

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Definitions

  1. 1. lit. there is no road to the sky, nor door into the earth (idiom)
  2. 2. fig. to be at the end of one's rope
  3. 3. to be trapped in a hopeless situation