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心急火燎
xīn​jí​huǒ​liǎo

to burn with anxiety

Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents
心急火燎 xīn​jí​huǒ​liǎo
to burn with anxiety
to be extremely anxious or impatient; to be burning with impatience, as if on fire

Frequency

Movie subtitles
0.060 per million appears in 0% of films
Written text
0.476 per million

Cross-References

Same as

  • 心急如焚 xīn​jí​rú​fén

Sources

Frequency data
SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)