死路一条

(idiom) dead end / road to ruin

one / single / a (article) / as soon as / entire; whole; all; throughout / "one" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 1) / also pr. [yao1] for greater clarity when spelling out numbers digit by digit

to die / impassable / uncrossable / inflexible / rigid / extremely / damned

strip / item / article / clause (of law or treaty) / classifier for long thin things (ribbon, river, road, trousers etc)

surname Lu

road / CL:條|条[tiao2] / journey / route / line (bus etc) / sort; kind

dead end / (fig.) the road to disaster