火烧眉毛 — Chinese idiom
火烧眉毛
huǒ shāo méi mao
Traditional: 火燒眉毛
Meaning
- lit. the fire burns one's eyebrows ; fig. desperate situation
- extreme emergency
Character by character
- 火huǒfire, flame; to burn; anger, rage
- 烧shāoto burn, to bake; to heat, to roast
- 眉méieyebrows; upper margin of book
- 毛maohair, fur, feathers; coarse
Idioms sharing a character
- 干柴烈火 gān chái liè huǒ
- 刀山火海 dāo shān huǒ hǎi
- 厝火积薪 cuò huǒ jī xīn
- 大动肝火 dà dòng gān huǒ
- 如火如荼 rú huǒ rú tú
- 后院起火 hòu yuàn qǐ huǒ
- 急如星火 jí rú xīng huǒ
- 惹火烧身 rě huǒ shāo shēn
- 战火纷飞 zhàn huǒ fēn fēi
- 打得火热 dǎ de huǒ rè
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