彈盡糧絕

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Chinese

bullet; shot; ball
bullet; shot; ball; to play (a stringed instrument); to pluck a string; impeach
 
to use up; to exhaust; to end
to use up; to exhaust; to end; to finish; to the utmost; exhausted; finished; to the limit (of something)
 
grain; provisions
cut short; extinct; to disappear
cut short; extinct; to disappear; to vanish; absolutely; by no means
 
trad. (彈盡糧絕)
simp. (弹尽粮绝)

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Idiom

彈盡糧絕

  1. (literally, of an army) to run out of ammunition and food supply
  2. (figuratively) to be in a desperate situation