倒悬之急 — Chinese idiom

Meaning

• lit. the crisis of being hanged upside down ; fig. extremely critical situation
• dire straits

Character by character

• 倒dàoto collapse, to fall over; to lie down
• 悬xuánto hang, to hoist, to suspend; hung
• 之zhīmarks preceding phrase as modifier of following ph
• 急jíanxious, worried; hasty, quick; pressing, urgent

Idioms sharing a character

• 倒悬之危 dào xuán zhī wēi
• 倒悬之苦 dào xuán zhī kǔ
• 倒打一耙 dào dǎ yī pá
• 倒持泰阿 dào chí Tài ē
• 倒行逆施 dào xíng nì shī
• 倾箱倒箧 qīng xiāng dào qiè
• 排山倒海 pái shān dǎo hǎi
• 本末倒置 běn mò dào zhì
• 东倒西歪 dōng dǎo xī wāi
• 神魂颠倒 shén hún diān dǎo

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