热锅上的蚂蚁
Traditional form:
熱鍋上的螞蟻
Pinyin (reading):
règuōshangdemǎyǐ
Definitions:
- (like) a cat on a hot tin roof
- anxious
- agitated
Characters:
- 热 - heat, fever, zeal
- 锅 - cooking-pot, saucepan
- 上 - above, on top, superior; to go up; to attend; previous
- 的 - aim, goal; of; possessive particle; -self suffix
- 蚂 - ant; leech
- 蚁 - ant
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