哑巴吃黄连，有苦说不出

yǎ ba chī huáng lián , yǒu kǔ shuō bu chū

to be forced to suffer in silence (idiom)

unable to speak of one's bitter suffering; sometimes written 啞子吃黃連，有苦說不出|哑子吃黄连，有苦说不出

哑

yǎ

mute; dumb; incapable of speech

巴

ba

the east of Sichuan and Chongqing Municipality

吃

chī

variant of 吃[chi1]

黄

huáng

yellow

连

lián

to link

，

,

有

yǒu

to have; there is

苦

kǔ

bitter

说

shuō

to speak; to talk; to say

不

bu

no; not so

出

chū

variant of 出[chu1] (classifier for plays or chapters of classical novels)