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Open the tool →局天促地 (jú tiān cù dì) is a Chinese idiom (chengyu) meaning “to be in an extremely difficult or desperate situation with no way out”.
局天促地 is pronounced jú tiān cù dì in Mandarin Chinese.
Literally, 局天促地 means “Confined by heaven and pressed by earth; Hemmed in by sky and constrained by ground”. It is used to mean “to be in an extremely difficult or desperate situation with no way out”.
指窘迫无路。