天翻地覆
tiān fān dì fù
Pinyin

Definition

天翻地覆
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tiān fān dì fù
  1. sky and the earth turning upside down (idiom); fig. complete confusion
  2. everything turned on its head

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

今天
jīn tiān
  1. 1 today
  2. 2 at the present
  3. 3 now
地
de
  1. 1 -ly
  2. 2 structural particle: used before a verb or adjective, linking it to preceding modifying adverbial adjunct
地址
dì zhǐ
  1. 1 address
  2. 2 classifier: 个 gè
地方
dì fāng
  1. 1 region
  2. 2 regional (away from the central administration)
  3. 3 local
天
tiān
  1. 1 day
  2. 2 sky
  3. 3 heaven

Idioms (20)

一人得道，鸡犬升天
yī rén dé dào , jī quǎn shēng tiān
  1. 1 lit. when a man achieves the Dao, his poultry and dogs rise to Heaven (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. to ride on sb else's success
  3. 3 Once one man gets a government position, all his cronies get in too
  4. 4 Once sb has cracked the problem, every Tom, Dick and Harry can do it
一个天南，一个地北
yī ge tiān nán , yī ge dì běi
  1. 1 to live miles apart (idiom)
一败涂地
yī bài tú dì
  1. 1 failed and wiped over the floor (idiom); to fail utterly
  2. 2 a crushing defeat
  3. 3 beaten and in a hopeless position
一柱擎天
yī zhù qíng tiān
  1. 1 lit. to support the sky as a single pillar (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. to take a crucial responsibility upon one's shoulders
一步登天
yī bù dēng tiān
  1. 1 reaching heaven in a single bound (idiom); (esp. with negative: don't expect) instant success

Sample Sentences

好久没玩网络游戏了，昨天一上网，发现游戏有了天翻地覆的变化。以前玩的“雷神之锤”，“星际争霸”，现在都没人玩了。现在热门的“仙境”，“凯旋”，我还是第一次听说。
hǎojiǔ méi wánr wǎngluò yóuxì le ，zuótiān yī shàngwǎng ，fāxiàn yóuxì yǒu le tiānfāndìfù de biànhuà 。yǐqián wánr de “léishén zhī chuí ”，“xīngjì zhēngbà ”，xiànzài dōu méi rén wán le 。xiànzài rèmén de “xiānjìng ”，“kǎixuán ”，wǒ hái shì dìyīcì tīngshuō 。
It's been a long time since I played online games. Last night, as soon as I got online, I discovered that the gaming world has changed completely! Nobody plays stuff like ''Quake" and ''Starcraft." anymore. These days, the hottest games these are ''Ragnarok”　and "Sephiroth''. This was the first time I'd heard of them.
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