きゅうてんちょっか

Japanese

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 (kyūtenchokka), is the hiragana spelling of the above term.)