刀かたな折おれ矢や尽つきて

expression

having exhausted every available means; having broken one's sword and exhausted one's arrows

A literary set phrase used when all resources or options are gone and one is at a complete dead end. The literal image is of a warrior whose sword is broken and arrows are spent.

• 資し金きんも人じん脈みゃくも尽つき、まさに刀かたな折おれ矢や尽つきての状じょう態たいだ。

  With funds and connections exhausted, we are truly at the point where every means has been spent.

• 彼かれは刀かたな折おれ矢や尽つきて、ついに降こう伏ふくを決けつ意いした。

  With his sword broken and arrows spent, he finally decided to surrender.