焦头烂额 jiāotóulàn'é badly burned Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents 焦头烂额 (焦頭爛額) jiāotóulàn'é badly burned idiom badly burned about the head and face, especially as a result of fighting a fire 救火英雄从废墟中走出来时,已经被烧得焦头烂额。 jiùhuǒ yīngxióng cóng fèixū zhōng zǒu chūlái shí, yǐjīng bèi shāo de jiāotóulàn'é. When the firefighting hero emerged from the ruins, he was already badly burned. overwhelmed idiom in a terrible fix or hard-pressed due to a heavy workload, debt, or complex problems 繁重的工作任务让他忙得焦头烂额。 fánzhòng de gōngzuò rènwu ràng tā máng de jiāotóulàn'é. Heavy workloads have left him utterly overwhelmed. Frequency Movie subtitles 1.52 per million appears in 1% of films Written text 1.27 per million Sources Definitions CC-CEDICT Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)
焦头烂额 (焦頭爛額) jiāotóulàn'é badly burned idiom badly burned about the head and face, especially as a result of fighting a fire 救火英雄从废墟中走出来时,已经被烧得焦头烂额。 jiùhuǒ yīngxióng cóng fèixū zhōng zǒu chūlái shí, yǐjīng bèi shāo de jiāotóulàn'é. When the firefighting hero emerged from the ruins, he was already badly burned. overwhelmed idiom in a terrible fix or hard-pressed due to a heavy workload, debt, or complex problems 繁重的工作任务让他忙得焦头烂额。 fánzhòng de gōngzuò rènwu ràng tā máng de jiāotóulàn'é. Heavy workloads have left him utterly overwhelmed. Frequency Movie subtitles 1.52 per million appears in 1% of films Written text 1.27 per million Sources Definitions CC-CEDICT Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)