山穷水尽 (shān qióng shuǐ jìn) | Meaning: mountain and river exhausted (idiom); at the end of the line | Chinese Idiom with Pinyin & Origin

sunset, the end of the road (idiom); in terminal decline · at a dead end日暮途穷rì mù tú qióng

lit. the path exhausted, the end of the road (idiom); an impasse · in a plight with no way out · things have reached a dead end穷途末路qióng tú mò lù

there is no escape from fate · it is fate, and cannot be avoided · if you're doomed, you're doomed · impossible to escape在劫难逃zài jié nán táo

(idiom) to submit to the will of heaven; to resign oneself to fate; to trust to luck听天由命tīng tiān yóu mìng

(idiom) dead end · road to ruin死路一条sǐ lù yī tiáo

to wait helplessly for death (idiom) · to resign oneself to extinction束手待毙shù shǒu dài bì

mountain and river exhausted (idiom); at the end of the line · nowhere to go