大祸临头 meaning in English
be faced with imminent disaster; a great calamity is impending over sb.; a great misfortune has come.; disaster is hanging over one.; disaster is imminent
Examples
- You talk as if there were dangers .
你讲话好像有什么要大祸临头似的。 - We know a black day when it comes .
大祸临头时,我们会知道的。 - For me, the july twentieth affair was in every way a calamity .
就我来说,七月二十日事件完全是大祸临头。 - Pen saw at once that there was a crisis, and that there had been a discovery .
潘一看,就知道大祸临头,事情败露了。 - The rise in interest rates will be disastrous as far as small firms are concerned .
利率增加对小公司来说是大祸临头。