to rise from the ashes
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5.7
- idiom
:
resurgir de las cenizas
- She showed remarkable strength and determination, managing to rise from the ashes after the devastating loss.
- phoenix rising from the ashes
I've seen, I've seen students rise from the ashes like a phoenix and do awesome.
- I've seen, I've seen students rise from the ashes like a phoenix and do awesome.
- What is what has caused them to sort of rise from the ashes?
- I have seen people who struggle so much with mathematics and they they rise from the ashes and they are able to learn.
- So capitalism rose from the ashes, as it were, and this changed the game for Stalin and communism.
- She's like a freaking, you know, Phoenix rise from the ashes, always will.
- And I rise from the ashes like a little fucking phoenix.
- And I started to see that there is a better chance of me succeeding because I've had to get out of the I had to rise from the ashes.
Examples
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Atlanta rose from the ashes of a horrible war.
Academic text (2004) -
You can rise from the ashes and seek beauty in your suffering.
Blog text (26) -
It's time for America to rise from the ashes.
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The day has finally come when justice shall be served, and the new and greater America will rise from the ashes.
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Motor City is rising from the ashes, slowly, one square foot at a time.
Blog text (27) -
But unlike them, we will prevail, because it is in our veins to rise from the ashes and succeed.
Blog text (20) -
However, now that public polling is done, the commercials have ceased, and the war is over, we must rise from the ashes of this election battle and figure out how to solve the problems and challenges all Americans face.
Blog text (26) -
Youngstown is beginning to rise from the ashes left by the collapse of the steel industry (4th in the nation of steel-producing cities).
Blog text (18) -
But Lydia Henry Stack Kilkullen, in spite of the success with which she established herself in the whirlwind of international society, never forgot the period of her life when only her wits, luck, timing, and hard work had enabled her to rise from the ashes of her divorce.
Fiction book (1990) -
After facing many challenges, the community was able to rise from the ashes and rebuild their town.
Synonyms
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3.4
To get through a hard time and be okay
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4.3
To get back to normal after a problem
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5.7
Come back to life or return to activity after a time away
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5.5
Become successful or active again after a long time away
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7.4
To recover and become stronger after a very hard time
To recover successfully after being ruined or failing completely
Antonyms
How Recovered
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5.7
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase literally combines 'rise' (move up/come back up) + 'from' (origin) + 'ashes' (remains after burning), so a learner who knows the words can infer a sense of coming back after destruction; the metaphor of recovery is fairly accessible and parallels (e.g. 'rise from the ashes' / 'resurgir de las cenizas' / 'renaître de ses cendres') occur in many languages. However, the meaning is a figurative extension rather than a strictly compositional one, so while partially transparent it still relies on metaphorical knowledge and prior exposure for full predictability.
Etymology
Rise from the ashes comes from an old story about a bird that burned and then rose from the ashes; this clear picture of coming up after everything is destroyed is why it means 'to recover successfully after great difficulties'.