焦 焦
头 頭
烂 爛
额 額
- 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)
Info
- Wiktionary: 焦头烂额
- MDBG: 焦头烂额
- Examples with 焦头烂额 on Tatoeba
- Percentile: 12 (higher is more common)
- Tags: chengyu