夹板气

夹板气

Literally means:

pains of being pressed between two boards

Actually means:

being tortured between two opposing parties; please both, please neither

It means one is in the position between two opposing parties and has to suffer rebuke from both sides. It often connotes one is wrongly accused, but since both parties are closely related to him, he couldn't help but endure. Sometimes he even has to make efforts to ease the tension between the two parties.

指处在对立双方之间所受到的来自双方的责难。常有委屈的意味，因为对立双方往往都是自己的亲人或熟人，虽然受气，但无可奈何有时甚至还得设法消除或缓和对立双方的矛。