- sky and the earth turning upside down (idiom); fig. complete confusion
- everything turned on its head
Characters
- 天 (天): day; sky; heaven
- 翻 (翻): to turn over; to flip over; to overturn; to rummage through; to translate; to decode; to double; to climb over or into; to cross
- 地 (地): -ly; structural particle: used before a verb or adjective, linking it to preceding modifying adverbial adjunct
- 覆 (覆): to cover; to overflow; to overturn; to capsize
Resources
- Wiktionary: 天翻地覆
- MDBG: 天翻地覆
- Examples with 天翻地覆 on Tatoeba
Examples
二十年以来中国体验了天翻地覆的变化。