拉不开栓

Traditional (Taiwan): 拉不開栓

lābùkāishuān ㄌㄚ ㄅㄨˋ ㄎㄞ ㄕㄨㄢ

    • to be unable to handle a tangle of piled-up problems

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Saying俗语俗語

Idiom惯用语 · Rarely used now

Literally
unable to pull back the rifle bolt
Meaning
Describes being unable to handle a tangle of problems that have piled up together.

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