出处:按学科分类—语言、文字 中国对外翻译出版公司《汉英成语词典》第13页(205字)
形容困苦至极,无法可想的窘境,例他贫病交迫,借贷无门,已是山穷水尽,想不到忽然来了位大救星。
Faced with poverty and debt,he was at the end of his tether,when out of the blue a great liberator appeared.