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焦頭爛額 (ziu1 tau4 laan6 ngaak6) — meaning, pronunciation, examples

焦頭爛額 (ziu1 tau4 laan6 ngaak6, jiāo tóu làn é) — lit. badly burned about the head (from trying to put out a fire) (idiom); fig. hard-pressed; under pressure (from a heavy workload, creditors etc)

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Usage

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beyond HSK

Related words

• 焦心 (ziu1 sam1) — anxious
• 焦 (ziu1) — burnt; scorched; charred; worried; anxious; coke; a surname
• 焦作 (ziu1 zok3) — see 焦作市[Jiao1 zuo4 Shi4]
• 焦作市 (ziu1 zok3 si5) — Jiaozuo, prefecture-level city in Henan Province 河南省[He2 nan2 Sheng3]
• 焦化 (ziu1 faa3) — to coke
• 焦噪 (ziu1 cou3) — variant of 焦躁[jiao1 zao4]

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