急转直下 — Chinese idiom
急转直下
jí zhuǎn zhí xià
Traditional: 急轉直下
Meaning
- to develop rapidly after abrupt turn ; dramatic change
Character by character
- 急jíanxious, worried; hasty, quick; pressing, urgent
- 转zhuǎnto move, to convey; to turn, to revolve, to circle
- 直zhístraight, vertical; candid, direct, frank
- 下xiàbelow, underneath; inferior; to bring down; next
Idioms sharing a character
- 不急之务 bù jí zhī wù
- 倒悬之急 dào xuán zhī jí
- 心急如焚 xīn jí rú fén
- 急不可待 jí bù kě dài
- 急人之难 jí rén zhī nàn
- 急功近利 jí gōng jìn lì
- 急如星火 jí rú xīng huǒ
- 急于求成 jí yú qiú chéng
- 情急智生 qíng jí zhì shēng
- 操之过急 cāo zhī guò jí
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