Definition
This idiom literally means 'pressing against the eyebrows and eyelashes' — describing an urgent situation that is so close it's about to touch your face. You use it to say a crisis, deadline, or event is imminent and requires immediate action. Common in both spoken and written Chinese, often as a predicate (形势迫在眉睫) or an attribute (迫在眉睫的问题).
id.
extremely urgentimminent
Examples
- 迫在眉睫，。Zhànzhēng pò zài méi jié, suǒyǒu rén dōu zài zhǔnbèi chèlí.War is imminent; everyone is preparing to evacuate.
- 迫在眉睫，。Zhège xiàngmù de jiézhǐ rìqī pò zài méi jié, wǒmen bìxū jiākuài sùdù.The project deadline is extremely urgent; we must speed up.
- 迫在眉睫。pò zài méi jié de wèntí shì rúhé jiějué zījīn duǎnquē.The problem that is most urgent is how to solve the funding shortage.
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