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祸不旋踵
huò​bù​xuán​zhǒng

disaster looms

Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents
  1. 祸 禍 huò noun
    disaster
    misfortune; calamity; disaster; opposite of 福 fú
  2. 不旋踵 bù​xuán​zhǒng
    in a split second
    (literary) in the brief moment it takes to turn one's heel; very quickly; in a very short time