打翻身仗

1. • to work hard towards a turnaround
2. • to fight to reverse sth

Character by character

• 打(dǎ)a semantically light, transitive verb that is combined with various grammatical objects to form compound verbs and verb-object phrases with a diverse range of meanings
• 翻(fān)turn over
• 身(shēn)body
• 仗(zhàng)weaponry