Chinese

			disaster; distress; to scold disaster; distress; to scold; difficult (to...); problem; difficulty; difficult; not good	to go; to do; capable to go; to do; capable; all right; competent; OK; okay; to travel; temporary; to walk; will do; behavior; conduct; a row; profession; professional
trad. (寸步難行)		寸步	難	行
simp. (寸步难行)		寸步	难	行

Idiom

寸步難行

1. cannot walk a step
2. difficult to move forward; difficult to make headway
   • 2002: Wang Huiling ed. (王惠玲), 最新學生作文成語寶典 (All new students treasury of classic idioms) ISBN 9576007747

     這條路三天兩頭的挖,坑坑洞洞的,真是寸步難行。.

     They have been digging up this road for the last several days and it is full of potholes. It is really difficult to move forward.

     政府種種嚴謹的法律,使得不肖的生意人,大嘆寸步難行,再也不能任意剝削了。

     All kinds of strict government laws make it so that unscrupulous business people lament the fact that it is difficult for them to make headway. They can no longer prey on people at will.