Starting from characters, then words, the journey to learning Chinese leads to idioms. Our free resource teaches idioms like 「焦頭爛額」. Explanation below.
Here is the Chinese idiom 「焦頭爛額」, along with its meaning and how it is used.
The head was singed and the forehead was burned. A metaphor for being in a very embarrassing situation. Sometimes it is also used to describe being so busy that one does not know what to do, with an exaggerated meaning.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
jiāo tóu làn é
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
jiu1 tau4 laan6 ngaak2
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