속수무책
Meanings
Noun
1. being at a loss what to do; feeling helpless in the face of some difficulty (four-character idiom from Classical Chinese)
Pronunciation
soksumuchaek
Examples1
여자친구가 흐느끼기 시작하자 남자는 속수무책으로 서 있기만 했다.
When his girlfriend started to weep, the man only stood there helplessly.