勢不得已
shì​bù​dé​yǐ

to have no choice

  • created sense approved 势不得已/勢不得已 · shì​bù​dé​yǐ · to have no choice — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    势不得已 / 勢不得已

    shì​bù​dé​yǐ

    to have no choice

    to be forced by circumstances to act in a certain way; to have no alternative but to do something

    势 (literal) → 势/勢 · shì · situation 不得已 (literal) → 不得已 · bù​dé​yǐ · to have no choice

    Changed: simplified, traditional, gloss, definition, pinyin, variant pinyin, variants, separable parts, decomposition

    created sense