a dried up tree comes to life again
Withered trees give birth to flowers, a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is k ū m ù sh ē nghu ā, which means withered trees bloom. It is a metaphor for survival in a desperate situation, and it is also a metaphor for impossible things. It comes from the biography of Liu Xun in the annals of the Three Kingdoms.
The origin of Idioms
"Three Kingdoms · Wei Zhi · biography of Liu Luo" said: "smoke on the cold ash, flowers on the dead wood."
Idiom usage
My life is like the dew of grass. Today I got this silver. It's like withered trees and flowers. It's like spring. Shen Shousan's sanyuanji Wanbi in Ming Dynasty
Analysis of Idioms
Synonym: withered trees and flowers antonym: withered trees and rotten plants
a dried up tree comes to life again