進退為難

no room to advance or to retreat (idiom); without any way out of a dilemma / trapped / in an impossible situation

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

to advance or retreat / knowing when to come and when to leave / a sense of propriety

to retreat / to decline / to move back / to withdraw

to retreat; to withdraw / to reject; to return (sth) / to decline

as (in the capacity of) / to take sth as / to act as / to serve as / to behave as / to become / to be / to do / by (in the passive voice)

because of / for / to

to feel embarrassed or awkward / to make things difficult (for someone) / to find things difficult (to do or manage)

difficult (to...) / problem / difficulty / difficult / not good

disaster / distress / to scold