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Meaning of 四面楚歌

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miàn chǔ
lit. on all sides, the songs of Chu (idiom); fig. surrounded by enemies, isolated and without help
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Example Sentences
1
(
Yahoo
)
Bloomberg NewsYou may have read somewhere that Yahoo's board has been under siege.
2
Finding himself under fire from all quarters, he had no alternative but to abandon his scheme for the time being.
3
As domestic consumption booms, China' s export-oriented manufacturers are under siege.
4
This idiom is used metaphorically to mean to be in a helpless and critical situation, surrounded by the enemy on all sides.
5
(
MuammarGaddafi
)
President Obama has again demanded that the embattled Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi step down.