窮途末路 [ㄑㄩㄥˊ ㄊㄨˊ ㄇㄛˋ ㄌㄨˋ; qiong2 tu2 mo4 lu4] 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 ◄ ►