"Impasse" • Chinese-English Dictionary
| 僵局 | jiāng jú | impasse / deadlock |  |
| 末路 | mò lù | end of the road / final road / fig. dead end / impasse |  |
| 走投无路 | zǒu tóu wú lù | to be at an impasse (idiom) / in a tight spot / at the end of one's rope / desperate | |
| 置之死地而后生 | zhì zhī sǐ dì ér hòu shēng | place sb on a field of death and he will fight to live (idiom based on Sunzi's "The Art of War" 孫子兵法|孙子兵法[Sun1 zi3 Bing1 fa3]) / to fight desperately when confronting mortal danger / fig. to find a way out of an impasse | |
| 穷途末路 | qióng tú mò lù | lit. the path exhausted, the end of the road (idiom) / an impasse / in a plight with no way out / things have reached a dead end | |
| 陷入绝境 | xiàn rù jué jìng | to fall into impasse | |
