翻天覆地

fāntiānfùdì
  1. sky and the earth turning upside down (idiom); fig. complete confusion
  2. everything turned on its head

CEDICT

Entry Composition

=1 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
=1 翻 fān variant of 翻 fān
2 天 tiān
  1. day
  2. sky
  3. heaven
=3 覆 fù
  1. variant of 復 fù
  2. to reply to a letter
=3 覆 fù
  1. to cover
  2. to overflow
  3. to overturn
  4. to capsize
4 地 dì
  1. earth
  2. ground
  3. field
  4. place
  5. land

classifier: 片