an imminent disaster
The Chinese idiom, Pinyin is m é Iji é zh ī huॸ, refers to the immediate disaster. It's from Han Feizi, employing people.
The origin of Idioms
Han Fei, Han Fei in the Warring States period, said in Han Fei Zi's Employment: "don't get rid of the trouble of eyebrows and eyelashes, but die of admiration and education."
Analysis of Idioms
The trouble lies in the eyebrows
Idiom usage
We must solve the immediate disaster first.
an imminent disaster
to attack cities and capture territories - gōng chéng lüě dì
one cannot shirk responsibility for one 's crimes - zuì zé nán táo
accept what is wrong as right when one grows accustomed to it - xí fēi chéng shì