天翻地覆
Traditional form:
天翻地覆
Pinyin (reading):
tiānfāndìfù
Definitions:
- sky and the earth turning upside down (idiom); fig. complete confusion
- everything turned on its head
Characters:
- 天 - sky, heaven; god, celestial
- 翻 - to upset, to capsize, to flip over
- 地 - earth, ground, soil; land, region; structural particle used before a verb
- 覆 - to cover; to overturn; to repeat; to reply
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