火燒眉毛 Save Sign in to save words Simplified: 火烧眉毛 huǒshāoméimao ㄏㄨㄛˇ ㄕㄠ ㄇㄟˊ ˙ㄇㄠ lit. the fire burns one's eyebrows (idiom) fig. desperate situation extreme emergency Character by character 火(huǒ)surname Huo 燒(shāo)burn 眉(méi)eyebrow 毛(mao)surname Mao A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0