xīn
huǒ
liǎo

idiom
common

Meaning of 心急火燎

心急火燎 means extremely anxious; burning with impatience; in a great hurry. Pronounced xīn jí huǒ liǎo.

  • extremely anxious; burning with impatience; in a great hurry

Definitions & Examples

Tīng
shuō
hái
zi
bìng
le
 
xīn
huǒ
liǎo
de
gǎn
dào
yuàn
 

Hearing that her child was sick, she rushed to the hospital in great anxiety.

Yǎn
kàn
huì
jiù
yào
kāi
shǐ
le
 
què
zhǎo
dào
wén
jiàn
 
de
xīn
huǒ
liǎo
 

With the meeting about to start, he couldn't find the documents and was burning with impatience.

Lǎo
bǎn
xīn
huǒ
liǎo
de
cuī
men
kuài
diǎn
wán
chéng
xiàng
 

The boss was urging us anxiously to finish the project quickly.