백척간두
Meanings
Noun
1. an extremely perilous situation, literally "atop a pole a hundred feet high" (four-character idiom from Classical Chinese)
Pronunciation
baekcheokgandu
Examples1
이 백척간두에서 살떨리는 무서움과 공포를 느낍니다[…]저의 소임을 접을 수가 없습니다.
I feel bone-chilling fear and terror on this hundred-feet pole […] But I cannot forsake my responsibility.