- sky and the earth turning upside down (idiom); fig. complete confusion
- everything turned on its head
Characters
- 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
- 天 (天): day; sky; heaven
- 覆 (覆): to cover; to overflow; to overturn; to capsize
- 地 (地): -ly; structural particle: used before a verb or adjective, linking it to preceding modifying adverbial adjunct
Resources
- Wiktionary: 翻天覆地
- MDBG: 翻天覆地
- Examples with 翻天覆地 on Tatoeba
Examples
相比二十年前的日本，现在的日本有了翻天覆地的变化。