narrow; tight; formal; stiff; constrained; uncomfortable
poverty; need; destitution; having great difficulty with; struggling greatly with; being in distress
to be at a loss; to be puzzled; to be perplexed; to be pressed for; to be pinched for; to become poor
to be caught in a dilemma; to get into a scrape
distress; wretched condition
to be embarrassed for a reply; to be at a loss for a reply
eternity; infinitude; immortality
poverty; destitution; privation; indigence; penury
ultimate; final; last; eventual
to be at a loss for words
financial difficulty; distress
to be hard pressed; to be at a loss; to become poor; to be reduced to poverty
a cornered rat will bite a cat; despair gives courage to a coward
desperate measure; last-ditch effort
thorough investigation; close inquiry; pursuit (e.g. of the truth)
desperate measure; expedient of last resort
respiratory distress syndrome
the poor; the needy; the destitute
as eternal as heaven and earth
study of natural laws; branch of neo-Confusianist scholarship
person in need; person facing economic hardship
necessity is the mother of invention; there is always some way out of a difficulty if you really look for one
dying in miserable circumstances
there is nothing more that can be done; it's all over
even the hunter will refrain from killing the bird that has flown to him for shelter
god of poverty; vengeful spirit
spring staple shortage (before the harvest of rice, wheat, barley, etc.)
a cornered rat will bite the cat; one who is cornered will fight like a devil
moto perpetuo; perpetual motion
even the hunter will refrain from killing the bird that has flown to him for shelter
acute respiratory distress syndrome; ARDS
cornered; driven to the wall
Mabel's Strange Predicament
rose of Sharon (Hibiscus syriacus); Korean rose
hakama; man's formal divided skirt