up a gum tree

1 He found himself in a sad pickle.

他发现自己已处于困境。

2 When a man is falling, every saint pushes him.

处于困境时，每个人都推开他。

1 山穷水尽

at the end of resources

2 陷入困境

stog Cook gum tree come to a pretty pass when the chips are down on the skids in queer street up a stump

3 进退两难

squeeze catch-22 be at the end of rope have a wolf by the ears be in for it in chancery up a tree

4 处于困境

on the ropes in deep water in the shit strand on the beach on the hook in bad shape in a bind hard put to it in a pickle hard-pressed flounder in deep doo doo be up the creek be in dire straits

5 进退维谷

crag-fast dilemmatic nonplus in a cleft stick between two fires up the pole up a tree