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倒悬之危
dào​xuán​zhī​wēi

critical situation

Origin Definitions Defs Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents
倒悬之危 倒懸之危 dào​xuán​zhī​wēi
critical situation
Literally "the crisis of being hung upside down"; used as an idiom to describe being in extremely dire straits, an urgent danger, or at the brink of destruction.

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