be cramped for room
As a Chinese idiom, the Pinyin is j ú Ti ā NC ù D ì, which means there is no way out. From new Yuefu.
The origin of Idioms
Wang Weicheng's new Yuefu: "Chinese workers are hard, Chinese workers are hard, there is no way to complain."
be cramped for room
the moon is bright and stars are few - yuè míng xīng xī
live in straitened circumstances - chuò shū yǐn shuǐ