哑巴吃黄连 a dumb person taking a dose of bitter medicine -- suffering humiliation, insults, etc.; a mute victim; inarticulate misery; in silence to suffer injury, damages, etc.; like a dumb man in silence, for to speak out would be to one's disadvantage, embarrassment or would even lead to the loss of face, etc.; swallow a bitter pill in silence; like a dumb person tasting the rhizome of chinese goldthread; (be compelled to) suffer in silence
哑巴吃黄连,有苦说不出 a dumb person tasting bitter herbs -- to be unable to express one's discomfortbe forced to suffer in silenceA dumb person eats japonica -- be a silent victim.be compelled to suffer in silencenot in a position to make known one's sufferingunable to complain after one suffers a loss,or is unjustly blamed,etc.