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at one's wit's end
to act in a way that defeats one's purpose
to look for a pretext
wheel rut
on the same track
rut
the tracks of a cart that overturned
see 拿你沒辦法|拿你没办法[na2 ni3 mei2 ban4 fa3]
to be precisely the same
complete change from the old rut
to drive non-stop as fast as one can
change of string, move out of rut
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You're not going in the right direction.
Source: Tatoeba #5085444 · CC BY 2.0 FRI hear that Tom won't do that again.
Source: Tatoeba #9415373 · CC BY 2.0 FRYou have to make sure that Tom and Mary don't do that again.
Source: Tatoeba #9400952 · CC BY 2.0 FRDefinitions and traditional forms are compiled from Make Me a Hanzi, HSK curriculum data, and CC-CEDICT. Sourced example sentences link to Tatoeba; editorial examples are labeled separately. Review data sources and licenses.