焦头烂额
      Explanation: Burnt the head, burns the amount. Analogy is very awkward predicament. Sometimes described as too busy to know what to do with exaggerated meaning.
      Usage: Joint type; as predicate, object, complement; metaphor very embarrassed embarrassed
      Source: Han Ban Gu "Huo Guang Han Chuan": "To make the Qing Gong Bin, Qutuxixin grace death, bruised and battered for the boarding Jesus?"
      Examples: Funeral flame soar, sailors were burned too ~. (Qing Li Ruzhen "Flowers in the Mirror," the twenty-sixth back)
  • Thesaurus:  row against the flood, strive for the best, domestic trouble and foreign invasion, Make persistent efforts, head broken and bleeding, difficulty of both the interior and exterior, Lanejiaotou, press forward in the face of difficulties, to stem the swift current
  • Antonym Group:  inshallah, realize one's ambition, have bright prospect; be well worth doing, have bright prospects; be well worth doing; much can be accomplished, determinism, amount to something, shrink back at the sight of (sth.dangerous or difficult), attend to the office on an empty stomach, withdraw after learning of the difficulties, bend one's back to the task until one's dying day; give one's all till one's heart stops beating, bow to the inevitable