束手无策

Traditional (Taiwan): 束手無策

On the HSK 7-9 vocabulary list, at CEFR level C1.

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shùshǒuwúcè ㄕㄨˋ ㄕㄡˇ ㄨˊ ㄘㄜˋ

- lit. to have one's hands bound and be unable to do anything about it (idiom) fig. helpless in the face of a crisis

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