not knowing what to do
Explanation: there is no place for hands and feet. I don't know what to do. Measure, place.
Idiom explanation
Explanation: measures: placement. There is no place for hands and feet.
Idioms and allusions
Source: Analects of Confucius · Zilu: "if the penalty is not right, the people will be unprepared." According to the biography of Chen Yuan in the book of the later Han Dynasty, "when I accompanied my servant to sue his king, my son became his father and brother, and he was too dense and strict, and the minister was at a loss."
not knowing what to do
We are anxious about gain and loss - guī dé guǐ shī
just listen to without taking it seriously - gū wàng tīng zhī
one must be thorough in exterminating an evil - chú è wù běn