kū​xiào​bù​dé HSK7

laugh or cry

哭笑不得 kū​xiào​bù​dé
laugh or cry idiom
To find a situation both ridiculous and annoying or embarrassing, such that one is caught between laughter and tears and does not know how to react.

Facing his naive and ridiculous excuses, I didn't know whether to laugh or cry.

Frequency

Movie subtitles
0.270 per million appears in 0% of films
Written text
3.44 per million

Details

HSK 3.0
Level 7

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