不上不下bù shàng bù xiàbe unable to go upward or downward; be suspended in mid air; be in a fix
❍ 我却总是既不安乐，也不灭亡地～地生活下来，都不能副任何一面的期望。(鲁迅《野草》47)Yet I had been neither happy nor blotted out,but had lived on somehow obscurely not fulfilling the expectations of either side. 不上不下bù shànɡ bù xià上不去，下不来。形容进退两难。be in a fix, be suspended in mid air, be unable to go upward or downward |