絕處逢生 [ㄐㄩㄝˊ ㄔㄨˇ ㄈㄥˊ ㄕㄥ; jue2 chu3 feng2 sheng1] to come back from death's door (idiom); unexpected rescue from danger fig. to recover from a seemingly impossible situation to find a way out of a predicament ◄ ►