人仰馬翻

人仰马翻
rényǎngmǎfān
  1. to suffer a crushing defeat (idiom)
  2. in a pitiful state
  3. in a complete mess
  4. to roll (with laughter)

CEDICT

  1. in a complete mess
  2. to be utterly routed; to suffer a crushing defeat

Wiktionary

形容非常混亂騷動的樣子。《負曝閑談．第二五回》：「這日是他散生日，沒有大舉動，不過唱唱戲，請請客罷了，已經鬧得人仰馬翻了。」《官場現形記．第一回》：「趙家一門大小，日夜忙碌，早已弄得筋疲力盡，人仰馬翻。」也作「馬仰人翻」。

重編國語辭典

  1. 形容極端混亂的樣子。
  2. 形容激戰時傷亡慘重的情景。

維基詞典

Entry Composition

1 人 rén person; people

classifiers: 個, 位
2 仰 yǎng
  1. to face upward
  2. to look up
  3. to admire
  4. to rely on
3 馬 mǎ
  1. horse
  2. horse or cavalry piece in Chinese chess
  3. knight in Western chess

classifier: 匹
=4 翻 fān
  1. to turn over
  2. to flip over
  3. to overturn
  4. to rummage through
  5. to translate
  6. to decode
  7. to double
  8. to climb over or into
  9. to cross
=4 翻 fān variant of 翻 fān

Related entries

慘敗 cǎnbài to suffer a crushing defeat
擀 gǎn to roll (dough etc)
把麵團擀成方形。

Roll the pastry into a rectangle.

Roll the dough into a rectangle.

Source: Tatoeba

滾動 gǔndòng
  1. to roll
  2. (to do sth) in a loop
  3. to scroll (computing)
  4. to progressively expand (economics)
  5. to rumble (of thunder)
翻滾 fāngǔn
  1. to roll
  2. to boil
你用過《WHAT THE CAR?》中的翻滾漢堡車嗎？真是太荒誕可笑了！

Have you tried flipping burgers as a car in "WHAT THE CAR?"? It's hilariously bizarre.

Source: Tatoeba

翻轉 fānzhuǎn
  1. to roll
  2. to turn over
  3. to invert
  4. to flip
他的車在掉進河裡前翻轉了好幾次。

His car flipped over several times before it fell into the river.

Source: Tatoeba

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