燃眉之急 Save Sign in to save words ránméizhījí ㄖㄢˊ ㄇㄟˊ ㄓ ㄐㄧˊ lit. the fire burns one's eyebrows (idiom) fig. desperate situation extreme emergency Character by character 燃(rán)burn 眉(méi)eyebrow 之(zhī)(possessive particle, literary equivalent of 的 de) 急(jí)urgent A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0