narrow; tight; formal; stiff; constrained; uncomfortable
to be hard pressed; to be at a loss; to become poor; to be reduced to poverty
poverty; need; destitution; having great difficulty with; struggling greatly with; being in distress
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
poverty; destitution; privation; indigence; penury
eternity; infinitude; immortality
to be at a loss; to be in a corner
cornered animal; (lit.) cornered rat
to be at a loss for words
ultimate; final; last; eventual
financial difficulty; distress
to reach an extreme; to reach a limit; extremely; to be stuck; to be in a dilemma; to be decided
a cornered rat will bite a cat; despair turns cowards courageous
to carry to extremes; to go to the end of something; to investigate thoroughly; to master
desperate measure; last-ditch effort
investigation (e.g. academically, of the unknown); close inquiry (enquiry)
to be hard pressed; to be at a loss; to become poor; to be reduced to poverty
desperate measure; expedient of last resort
extremity; end; bound; limit
person in need; person facing economic hardship
the poor; the needy; the destitute
as eternal as heaven and earth
respiratory distress syndrome
study of natural laws; branch of neo-Confusianist scholarship
dying in miserable circumstances
height; acme; extremity; end; limit
extremely; in the extreme; knows no bounds (e.g. rudeness); boundless (e.g. universe, ocean); limitless
necessity is the mother of invention; there is always some way out of a difficulty if you really look for one
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
final aim; final end; supreme end
a cornered rat will bite the cat; one who is cornered will fight like a devil
spring staple shortage (before the harvest of rice, wheat, barley, etc.)
extremely; in the extreme; knows no bounds (e.g. rudeness); boundless (e.g. universe, ocean); limitless
using the strongest words possible
cornered; driven to the wall
even the hunter will refrain from killing the bird that has flown to him for shelter
hakama; man's formal divided shirt
moto perpetuo; perpetual motion
Mabel's Strange Predicament
rose of Sharon (Hibiscus syriacus); Korean rose