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跳进黄河洗不清

tiào jìn huáng hé xǐ bù qīng

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Definitions

  1. 1. lit. even jumping into the Yellow River can't get you clean
  2. 2. fig. to become inexorably mixed up
  3. 3. mired in controversy
  4. 4. in deep trouble