勢成騎虎騎虎難下shì chéng qí hǔlike riding on a tiger—afraid to go on and unable to get down; in a situation from which it is hard to extricate oneself; in an awkward position from which there is no retreat
? 時局急轉(zhuǎn)直下，～，陰謀家們都一籌莫展。The situation took a sudden change. The conspirators had no way to back up and were all at their wits’end. |