枯魚之肆
kū​yú​zhī​sì

dire straits

  • created sense approved 枯鱼之肆/枯魚之肆 · kū​yú​zhī​sì · dire straits — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    枯鱼之肆 / 枯魚之肆

    kū​yú​zhī​sì

    dire straits

    Used to describe someone in extreme distress or a desperate situation, like a fish out of water in a dried fish shop; often appears in the phrase [[索我于枯鱼之肆|索我於枯魚之肆|suo3 wo3 yu2 ku1 yu2 zhi1 si4]]

    枯鱼 (literal) → 枯鱼/枯魚 · kū​yú · dried fish 之 (literal) → 之 · zhī · [possessive] 肆 (literal) → 肆 · sì · shop

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

    created sense