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羊触藩篱

yáng chù fān lit. billy goat's horns caught in the fence (idiom from Book of Changes 易经); impossible to advance or to retreat / without any way out of a dilemma / trapped / in an impossible situation
Yáng surname Yang
yáng sheep; goat / CL:,
  chù to touch / to make contact with sth / to stir up sb's emotions
   fān fence; hedge / (literary) screen; barrier / vassal state / Taiwan pr. [fan2]
   fān hedge / fence / (fig.) barrier
    a fence
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