扭转乾坤
niǔ​zhuǎn​qián​kūn

to turn the tide

  • created reference approved 扭转乾坤/扭轉乾坤 → 乾坤 (see) — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    扭转乾坤 / 扭轉乾坤 niǔ​zhuǎn​qián​kūn

    乾坤 qián​kūn

    see

    Changed: source (simp), source (trad), source pinyin, target (simp), target (trad), target pinyin, type

    created reference

  • created sense approved 扭转乾坤/扭轉乾坤 · niǔ​zhuǎn​qián​kūn · to turn the tide — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    扭转乾坤 / 扭轉乾坤

    niǔ​zhuǎn​qián​kūn

    to turn the tide

    to turn the tide or change the course of events; specifically refers to flipping a situation from failure to success or from bad to good

    扭转 (literal) → 扭转/扭轉 · niǔ​zhuǎn · to reverse 乾坤 (literal) → 乾坤 · qián​kūn · the universe

    Changed: simplified, traditional, gloss, definition, pinyin, variant pinyin, variants, separable parts, decomposition

    created sense