大难临头dà nàn lín tóua great disaster befalling;be faced with imminent disaster; calamities coming down on sb; peril approaching; with great disaster hanging over one
❍ 谁发动另一场世界大战，谁就会～。Calamities will cartainly come down on him who launches another world war.
❍ 然而，我们所施的是什么式的教育呢，连小小的角也不能有，则～，惟有兔子似的逃跑而已。(鲁迅《南腔北调集·论“赴难”和“逃难”》50) But what tactics are we teaching? We are forbidden even the smallest horns,and when peril approaches we can only run like rabbits. 大难临头dà nàn lín tóu指大的灾祸来临了。be faced with imminent disaster, peril approaching, with great disaster hanging over one, be in deadly danger right now |