愁眉鎖眼
Chinese
knitted brows to lock up; to lock eye trad. (愁眉鎖眼) 愁眉 鎖 眼 simp. (愁眉锁眼) 愁眉 锁 眼
Pronunciation
Idiom
愁眉鎖眼
- to knit one's brows in despair; to look worried
- 大家以為有了出路,愁眉鎖眼的姿態為之一掃。 [MSC, trad.]
- From: 1940, 毛澤東 (Mao Zedong), 《新民主主義論》 (On New Democracy), 《毛澤東選集》. English translation based on the Foreign Languages Press edition
- Dàjiā yǐwéi yǒu le chūlù, chóuméisuǒyǎn de zītài wéi zhī yī sǎo. [Pinyin]
- There is a general feeling that a way out of the impasse has been found, and people no longer knit their brows in despair.
大家以为有了出路,愁眉锁眼的姿态为之一扫。 [MSC, simp.]