人仰馬翻

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Chinese

man; person; people look up horse; surname flit about; translate; turn over
trad. (人仰馬翻)
simp. (人仰马翻)
anagrams 馬仰人翻马仰人翻
馬翻人仰马翻人仰
Literally: “humans and horses thrown off their feet”.

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Idiom

人仰馬翻

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

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