- 大祸临头 dàhuòlíntóu to face imminent catastrophea major calamity is about to happen; calamity looms; all hell will break loose
- 滔天大祸 tāotiāndàhuò terrible disastera catastrophic disaster or great calamity; an enormous misfortune
- 酿成大祸 niàngchéngdàhuò to lead to disaster(literary) to lead to a catastrophe; to breed disaster