千鈞一髮

Simplified: 千钧一发

On the HSK 7-9 vocabulary list, at CEFR level C1.

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qiānjūnyīfà ㄑㄧㄢㄐㄩㄣㄧㄈㄚˋ

- a thousand pounds hangs by a thread (idiom)
  lit.
- (at the) critical perilous (moment)
  fig.

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在千鈞一髮之際 zàiqiānjūnyīfàzhījì at the critical moment

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