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力挽狂澜
lì​wǎn​kuáng​lán

to turn the tide

Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents
力挽狂澜 力挽狂瀾 lì​wǎn​kuáng​lán
to turn the tide
to pull strongly against a raging tide; used to describe making a vigorous effort to save a desperate situation or to reverse a dangerous trend

Frequency

Movie subtitles
0.630 per million appears in 0% of films
Written text
0.751 per million

Sources

Frequency data
SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)