大起大落
dà qǐ dà luò
Pinyin
Definition
大起大落
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- (of market prices etc) to rapidly fluctuate (idiom)
- volatile
- significant ups and downs
- roller coaster
Character Decomposition
Related Words (20)
- 1 in the same place
- 2 together
- 3 with
- 4 altogether (in total)
- 1 together
- 1 big
- 2 huge
- 3 large
- 4 major
- 5 great
- 6 wide
- 7 deep
- 8 older (than)
- 9 oldest
- 10 eldest
- 11 greatly
- 12 very much
- 13 (dialect) father
- 14 father's elder or younger brother
- 1 very auspicious
- 2 extremely lucky
- 1 everyone
- 2 influential family
- 3 great expert
Idioms (20)
一波未平,一波又起
- 1 before the first wave subsides, a new wave rises (idiom); a new problem arises before the old is solved
- 2 many twists and turns to a story
- 3 one thing after another
一病不起
- 1 to fall gravely ill, never to recover (idiom)
一落千丈
- 1 lit. to drop a thousand zhang in one fall (idiom)
- 2 fig. (of business, popularity etc) to suffer a sudden, devastating decline
- 3 to take a dive
七零八落
- 1 (idiom) everything broken and in disorder
不见棺材不落泪
- 1 lit. not to shed a tear until one sees the coffin (idiom)
- 2 fig. refuse to be convinced until one is faced with grim reality
Sample Sentences
人生的大起大落往往就在一瞬间。
Life's big changes often happen in an instant.