quẫn bách

Từ điển Việt Anh (Vietnamese English Dictionary)

	[quẫn bách]
		be hand up; be in great difficulties; be in a quandary; be in a fix, be in a mess, be in Queer Street
			lâm vào tình trạng quẫn bách
			get into dificulties; find oneself in a tight corner

to be hand up