created sense approved 热锅上的蚂蚁/熱鍋上的螞蟻 · règuōshàngdemǎyǐ · cat on a hot tin roof — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"
热锅上的蚂蚁 / 熱鍋上的螞蟻
règuōshàngdemǎyǐ
cat on a hot tin roof
(metaphor) someone who is extremely anxious, agitated, or unable to sit still because of worry
règuōshangdemǎyǐ
热 (literal) → 热/熱 · rè · hot 锅 (literal) → 锅/鍋 · guō · pot 上 (bound) → 上 · shang · on 的 (bound) → 的 · de · [possessive/attributive] 蚂蚁 (literal) → 蚂蚁/螞蟻 · mǎyǐ · ant
Changed: simplified, traditional, gloss, definition, pinyin, variant pinyin, variants, separable parts, decomposition
created sense approved 热锅上的蚂蚁/熱鍋上的螞蟻 · règuōshàngdemǎyǐ · at the end of one's rope — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"
热锅上的蚂蚁 / 熱鍋上的螞蟻
règuōshàngdemǎyǐ
at the end of one's rope
(metaphor) trapped in a desperate situation with no way out
règuōshangdemǎyǐ
热 (literal) → 热/熱 · rè · hot 锅 (literal) → 锅/鍋 · guō · pot 上 (bound) → 上 · shang · on 的 (bound) → 的 · de · [possessive/attributive] 蚂蚁 (literal) → 蚂蚁/螞蟻 · mǎyǐ · ant
Changed: simplified, traditional, gloss, definition, pinyin, variant pinyin, variants, separable parts, decomposition