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山窮水盡

山窮水盡

See also: 山穷水尽

Chinese

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|- ! !mountain; hill !exhausted; poor !water; river

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to use up; to exhaust; to end; to finish; to the utmost; exhausted; finished; to the limit (of sth)

|- !trad. (山窮水盡) | | | | |- !simp. (山穷水尽) | | | | |}

Idiom

山窮水盡

  1. having no more options, at the end of one's rope

References

  • “山窮水盡”, in Guoyu Cidian On-line Mandarin Dictionary (國語辭典) (in Mandarin), accessed 2011-06-20