- be difficult for sb. to move a single step -- can't do anything; difficult to move even one step; cannot go a step; cannot move a single step; find it extremely hard to make a single move; forced into a strait; unable to move a tiny step; unable to do a thing; unable to move one inch forward:
Without the masses we can't move a step.
咱们离开了群众,就寸步难行啊!