迫在眉睫 — Chinese idiom
迫在眉睫
pò zài méi jié
Meaning
- pressing in on one's eyelashes ; imminent
Character by character
- 迫pòto compel, to force; pressing, urgent
- 在zàiat, in, on; to exist; used to indicate the present
- 眉méieyebrows; upper margin of book
- 睫jiéeyelashes
Idioms sharing a character
- 贫病交迫 pín bìng jiāo pò
- 迫不及待 pò bù jí dài
- 迫不得已 pò bù dé yǐ
- 饥寒交迫 jī hán jiāo pò
- 事在人为 shì zài rén wéi
- 胜券在握 shèng quàn zài wò
- 势在必得 shì zài bì dé
- 势在必行 shì zài bì xíng
- 危在旦夕 wēi zài dàn xī
- 命在旦夕 mìng zài dàn xī
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