转危为安
转危为安
zhuǎn wēi wéi ān
to turn peril into safety (idiom); to avert a danger (esp. political or medical)
verbidiom
Traditional: 轉危為安
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- (verb, idiom) to turn peril into safety (idiom); to avert a danger (esp. political or medical)
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Related Words
化险为夷(huà xiǎn wéi yí)— to turn peril into safety (idiom); to avert disaster
→安危(ān wēi)— safety and danger
→居安思危(jū ān sī wēi)— to think of danger in times of safety
→道高益安，势高益危(dào gāo yì ān , shì gāo yì wēi)— More moral strength increases one's safety, more power and influence increases one's danger (idiom, from Records of the Historian 史記|史记). cf Unlimited power is apt to corrupt the minds of those who possess it (William Pitt the Elder, 1770).
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