天翻地覆 — Chinese idiom
天翻地覆
tiān fān dì fù
Meaning
- sky and the earth turning upside down ; fig. complete confusion
- everything turned on its head
Character by character
- 天tiānsky, heaven; god, celestial
- 翻fānto upset, to capsize, to flip over
- 地dìearth, ground, soil; land, region; structural part
- 覆fùto cover; to overturn; to repeat; to reply
Idioms sharing a character
- 一柱擎天 yī zhù qíng tiān
- 一步登天 yī bù dēng tiān
- 三天两头 sān tiān liǎng tóu
- 上天入地 shàng tiān rù dì
- 不共戴天 bù gòng dài tiān
- 不啻天渊 bù chì tiān yuān
- 不见天日 bù jiàn tiān rì
- 九天仙女 jiǔ tiān xiān nǚ
- 九天揽月 jiǔ tiān lǎn yuè
- 人命关天 rén mìng guān tiān
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