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咸鱼翻身
xián yú fān shēn
What 咸鱼翻身 means
- lit. the salted fish turns over (idiom)
- fig. to experience a reversal of fortune
The characters in 咸鱼翻身
- 咸xiánall; everyone; each
- 鱼yúfish; used in the names of various aquatic animals that are not fish (including abalone 鲍鱼
- 翻fānto turn over; to flip over; to overturn
- 身shēnbody; life; oneself
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