Raising the dead back to life — a comeback from a hopeless position.

What a Japanese person actually thinks
Dramatic and well liked. It's the phrase a commentator uses for a ninth-inning turnaround. Reads as someone who came back from something.

Meaning

Literally: raise the dead + return to life
Actually: Turning a situation around when it looked already lost. Originally medical — a doctor bringing a patient back — now used for dramatic comebacks in sport and business.

Scores

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Common idiom.

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Four dense characters and a genuinely thrilling literal image. Far better than 不死鳥 for the same 'I rose again' idea.

Watch out

Nothing embarrassing lurking in here.

On skin

起死回生

Orientation: vertical

Bold Mincho, vertical.