each sticks to his own stand
The Chinese idiom, Pinyin, is Xi à ngch í B à Xi à, which means that the two sides are antagonistic to each other and will not give in. It comes from Xiang Yu's biography in historical records.
Notes on Idioms
Hold: confrontation.
The origin of Idioms
Xiang Yu's biography in historical records: "the stalemate between Chu and Han Dynasties has been unresolved for a long time, and Ding Zhuang's army has been struggling. The old and the weak have stopped (tired) and turned to Cao."
Idiom usage
It's formal; it's predicate, attribute, complement; it's not mutually exclusive. In the biography of the Marquis of Huaiyin in historical records, it is said that if Yan and Qi hold a stalemate, then Liu and Xiang are not divided Zhili councilor Zhongyin, who was born in Hubei Province, was a conservative, while Hubei Councilor Liu Chengyu, who was a reformer, was at loggerheads with each other. The 80th chapter of the popular romance of the Republic of China
Analysis of Idioms
It's hard to solve the problem
each sticks to his own stand
with a severe countenance and a harsh voice - è yán lì sè
be one's unshirkable responsibility - zé wú páng dài