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一发千钧
yī​fà​qiān​jūn

in imminent peril

Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents
  1. 一发 一髮 yī​fà
    a single hair
    (literary) a single hair; refers to something extremely tiny or thin as in the idiom 千钧一发 qiān​jūn​yī​fà
  2. 千钧 千鈞 qiān​jūn
    very heavy
    extremely heavy weight; literally thirty thousand 斤 jīn