- a thousand pounds hangs by a thread (idiom)
- imminent peril
- a matter of life or death
Characters
- 千 (千): thousand
- 钧 (鈞): 30 catties; great; your (honorific)
- 一 (一): one; single; a (article); as soon as; entire; whole; all; throughout; "one" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 1); also pr. [yao1] for greater clarity when spelling out numbers digit by digit
- 发 (發): to send out; to show (one's feeling); to issue; to develop; to make a bundle of money; classifier for gunshots (rounds)
Resources
- Wiktionary: 千钧一发
- MDBG: 千钧一发
- Examples with 千钧一发 on Tatoeba
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