Trapped in a trap
Trapped in a long, Chinese idiom, Pinyin is Xi à NY ú L é IXI è, meaning to be put in prison. It comes from the 41st chapter of Water Margin by Shi Naian of Ming Dynasty.
Notes on Idioms
A rope that binds a prisoner. To be put in prison.
The origin of Idioms
The 41st chapter of the complete story of the water margin by Shi Naian of Ming Dynasty: "if the second brothers had not saved the boat, we would have been trapped."
Idiom usage
To be put in prison
Trapped in a trap
see little of the world and hear little of what is going on outside - guǎ jiàn shǎo wén
a case involving human life is to be treated with the utmost care - xìng mìng guān tiān