倒悬之危

dào xuán zhī wēi

Definitions

1. lit. the crisis of being hanged upside down (idiom); fig. extremely critical situation
2. dire straits

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Child Words of 倒悬之危

(possessive particle, literary equivalent of 的[de])

to fall; to collapse; to lie horizontally

to invert; to place upside down or frontside back

to hang or suspend

lit. to hang upside down

danger