きゅうてんちょっか

Japanese

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For pronunciation and definitions of きゅうてんちょっか – see the following entry.
急転直下
[noun] a sudden change in the state of things resulting in a conclusion or resolution: all at once, all of a sudden
[verb] change all of a sudden, happen all at once
(This term, きゅうてんちょっか, is the hiragana spelling of the above term.)