倒悬之苦

lit. the pain of being hanged upside down (idiom); fig. extremely critical situation / dire straits

to fall; to collapse; to lie horizontally / to fail; to go bankrupt / to overthrow / to change (trains or buses) / to move around / to resell at a profit

to invert; to place upside down or frontside back / to pour out / to tip out; to dump / inverted; upside down; reversed / to go backward / contrary to what one might expect; but; yet

lit. to hang upside down / fig. in dire straits

to hang or suspend / to worry / public announcement / unresolved / baseless / without foundation

(possessive particle, literary equivalent of 的[de5]) / him / her / it

bitter / hardship / pain / to suffer / to bring suffering to / painstakingly