unable to get down but dangerous to go on

unable to get down but dangerous to go on

It's a Chinese idiom. Pinyin is sh ì ch é ngq í h ǔ, which means riding on a tiger's back, you can't get down if you want to. It's a metaphor for something that is difficult in the middle of the way, but can't stop even if it wants to stop because of the situation. It comes from farewell to Guangling.

The origin of Idioms

Li Bai's poem "farewell to the Guangling Princes" in Tang Dynasty: "riding a tiger does not dare to go down, climbing a dragon suddenly falls into the sky."

Idiom usage

Subject predicate; as object, clause; with derogatory meaning

Examples

At the beginning, I didn't take this major into consideration, so it was overwhelming!

"But these three new silk reeling factories, ~"

Analysis of Idioms

[antonym] easy and smooth

A dilemma, a dilemma, a dilemma, a dilemma