一筹莫展: be nonplussed over sth.; at a loss what to do; be at one's wits' end; be at the end of one's tether; be driven to one's wits' end; be up a gum-tree [tree]; can find no way out; cannot do a
卧病在床: be sick abed; be confined to (one's) bed by sickness; be ill abed [in bed]; be laid up with illness; be lying ill; stay in bed; take to one's bed