鲤鱼打挺

1. • to kip up (spring upright from supine without hands)

     martial arts, gymnastics

2. • to jolt upright

     fig.

Character by character

• 鲤(lǐ)carp
• 鱼(yú)surname Yu
• 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
• 挺(tǐng)straight