無路可走

无路可走
wúlùkězǒu
  1. nowhere to go
  2. at the end of one's tether

CEDICT

比喻境遇極為困窘潦倒。

重編國語辭典

Entry Composition

1 無 wú
  1. not to have
  2. no
  3. none
  4. not
  5. to lack
  6. un-
  7. -less
2 路 lù
  1. journey
  2. route
  3. line (bus etc)
  4. sort; kind

classifier: 條
3 可 kě
  1. (prefix) can; may; able to; -able
  2. to approve; to permit
  3. to suit
  4. (particle used for emphasis) certainly; very
  5. but; however
4 走 zǒu
  1. to walk
  2. to go
  3. to run
  4. to move (of vehicle)
  5. to visit
  6. to leave
  7. to go away
  8. to die (euph.)
  9. from
  10. through
  11. away (in compound verbs, such as 撤走 chèzǒu)
  12. to change (shape, form, meaning)

Related entries

山窮水盡 shānqióngshuǐjìn
  1. mountain and river exhausted (idiom); at the end of the line
  2. nowhere to go
山窮水盡疑無路，柳暗花明又一村。

Every cloud has a silver lining.

Source: Tatoeba

無路可逃 wúlùkětáo
  1. no way out
  2. nowhere to go
  3. trapped beyond hope of rescue
  4. painted into a corner