事到臨頭 Save Sign in to save words Simplified: 事到临头 shìdàolíntóu ㄕˋ ㄉㄠˋ ㄌㄧㄣˊ ㄊㄡˊ when things come to a head (idiom) Character by character 事(shì)matter 到(dào)reach 臨(lín)face 頭(tóu)head Words that sound like shìdàolíntóu 死到臨頭 A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0