- lit. to return in a swirl of dust (idiom)
- fig. to regroup and come back even stronger
- to make a comeback
Characters
- 卷 (卷): to roll up; roll; classifier for small rolled things (wad of paper money, movie reel etc)
- 土 (土): Tu (ethnic group); surname Tu
- 重 (重): to repeat; repetition; again; re-; classifier: layer
- 来 (來): to come; (used as a substitute for a more specific verb); hither (directional complement for motion toward the speaker, as in 回來|回来[hui2 lai5]); ever since (as in 自古以來|自古以来[zi4 gu3 yi3 lai2]); for the past (amount of time); (prefix) the coming ...; the next ... (as in 來世|来世[lai2 shi4]); (between two verbs) in order to; (after a round number) approximately; (used after 得[de2] to indicate possibility, as in 談得來|谈得来[tan2 de5 lai2], or after 不[bu4] to indicate impossibility, as in 吃不來|吃不来[chi1 bu5 lai2])
Resources
- Wiktionary: 卷土重来
- MDBG: 卷土重来
- Examples with 卷土重来 on Tatoeba
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