焦頭爛額

lit. badly burned about the head (from trying to put out a fire) (idiom) / fig. hard-pressed / under pressure (from a heavy workload, creditors etc)

Characters and words in 焦頭爛額

surname Jiao

= + : Mnemonic symbol: a magnifier, with which the sun rays can be bundled into its focus and something can be burnt.

Joan of Arc (ji) caught a sparrow (隹) in front of the aorta (ao1) and put it on a grill (灬). Using a magnifier (焦), she is trying to start the grill.
burnt / scorched / charred / worried / anxious / coke / joule (abbr. for 焦耳[jiao1 er3])

= + : Mnemonic symbol: a magnifier, with which the sun rays can be bundled into its focus and something can be burnt.

Joan of Arc (ji) caught a sparrow (隹) in front of the aorta (ao1) and put it on a grill (灬). Using a magnifier (焦), she is trying to start the grill.
head / hair style / the top / end / beginning or end / a stub / remnant / chief / boss / side / aspect / first / leading / classifier for pigs or livestock / CL:個|个[ge4]

= + : Tecumseh (t) is inspecting is depiction in the outhouse's kitchen (ou2). He's depicted as having a skull (mnemonic symbol for 头) head (头) with two petal leaves (⺀) in the eye holes, and having a robot (大) body.
suffix for nouns
soft; mushy / well-cooked and soft / to rot; to decompose / rotten / worn out / chaotic; messy / utterly; thoroughly / crappy; bad

= + : Sir Lancelot (l) is taking a bath in the anthill's bathroom (an4). The bathtub is sitting on a fire (火), so the water is really hot. Sir Lancelot has added a few orchids (兰) to the bath, but because the water is so warm, they're all mushy and rotten (烂).
forehead / horizontal tablet or inscribed board / specified number or amount

= + : Albert Einstein (Ø) and his guest (客) are playing a game of 20 questions just inside the elevator's kitchen (e2). They both have sheets of paper (页) fixed to their foreheads (额) with a name on each to guess.

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