進退失據

进
進
退
退
失
失
据
據
no room to advance or to retreat (idiom); at a loss / in a hopeless situation

Characters and words in 進退失據

进
進
jìn = ji + (e)n4
to go forward / to advance / to go in / to enter / to put in / to submit / to take in / to admit / (math.) base of a number system / classifier for sections in a building or residential compound
进 = 井 + 辶 : Joan of Arc fell into a well after she entered the encampment's bathroom, but luckily one of her gladiator sandals got stuck on one toilet, so now she can use the string to climb out of the well.
进
進
退
退
to advance or retreat / knowing when to come and when to leave / a sense of propriety
退
tuì = tu + ei4
to retreat / to decline / to move back / to withdraw
退 = 艮 + 辶 : Tommy Turtle (tu) recently retired (退) and retreated (退) into the Eiffel Tower's bathroom (ei4). There he just wears gladiator sandals (辶), blows chewing gum bubbles (艮) and ponders the sense of life.
退
tuì = tu + ei4
to retreat; to withdraw / to reject; to return (sth) / to decline
失
shi̅ = sh + Ø1
to lose / to miss / to fail
失 = 𠂉 + 大 : Sherlock (sh) locked himself out of the space station (Ø1)! He lost (失) his key (𠂉)! After he was floating in front of the space station for an eternity, a robot (大) came by with a lost+found box (失) which contained his lost key.
据
據
jù = ju + Ø4
according to / to act in accordance with / to depend on / to seize / to occupy
据 = 居 + 扌 : Zeus (ju) wants to use the toilet in the space station's bathroom (Ø4), but it is occupied (据) by a hermite crab (居) which states that the toilet is its new home and cannot be used anymore. Consequently Zeus seizes (据) the crab by using a toy claw (扌) with which he pulls the hermite crab out of the toilet.

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