燃眉

to burn one's eyebrows / fig. desperately serious situation

Characters and words in 燃眉

to burn / to ignite / to light / fig. to spark off (hopes) / to start (debate) / to raise (hopes)

= + : Robinson Crusoe (r) is igniting (燃) a fire (火) in the anthill's kitchen (an2) hoping (燃) to cook his dinner there, but soon people come over and tell him it's not right (然) to do so because of the potential carbon monoxide poisoning.
eyebrow / upper margin

= + + : Mahatma Gandhi (m) and the Eye of Providence (目) fell asleep in the Eiffel Tower's kitchen (ei2), and a ghost (尸) is using the opportunity to play a prank on them. Using a dinosaur bone (丨) which he stuck into black ashes earlier he draws big monobrows (眉) on their faces, using the dinosaur bone like an eyebrow pencil (眉).

Words with 燃眉

lit. the fire burns one's eyebrows (idiom); fig. desperate situation / extreme emergency

Sentences with 燃眉

燃眉 currently does not appear in any sentence.