转败为胜 — Chinese idiom
转败为胜
zhuàn bài wéi shèng
Traditional: 轉敗為勝
Meaning
- to turn defeat into victory ; snatching victory from the jaws of defeat
Character by character
- 转zhuànto move, to convey; to turn, to revolve, to circle
- 败bàifailure; to decline, to fail, to suffer defeat
- 为wéito do, to act; to handle, to govern; to be
- 胜shèngvictory; to excel, to truimph
Idioms sharing a character
- 回心转意 huí xīn zhuǎn yì
- 天旋地转 tiān xuán dì zhuàn
- 峰回路转 fēng huí lù zhuǎn
- 急转直下 jí zhuǎn zhí xià
- 扭转乾坤 niǔ zhuǎn qián kūn
- 旋乾转坤 xuán qián zhuǎn kūn
- 时来运转 shí lái yùn zhuǎn
- 珠流璧转 zhū liú bì zhuǎn
- 目不转睛 mù bù zhuǎn jīng
- 目不转瞬 mù bù zhuǎn shùn
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