山saan1窮kung4水seoi2盡zeon6

English

1. mountain and river exhausted (idiom); at the end of the line
2. (idiom) Someone is in a dead end and dire situation
3. nowhere to go
4. figuratively to fall into impasse, a hopeless situation, most of the time means lack of money for food, or under starvationunreviewed?

粵語 — Cantonese

1. 比喻進入絕境，情況非常不妙，尤指無錢開飯、斷絕糧水unreviewed?

Examples

• 山窮水盡疑無路，柳暗花明又一村。

  Every cloud has a silver lining.

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• unreviewed?

  唔係去到山窮水盡，我都唔想求人

  Unless I had fallen into impasse, I don't want to beg others for help.