震しん天てん動どう地ち

noun

earth-shaking; world-shaking

A yojijukugo used for events or changes so momentous they seem to shake heaven and earth; often appears in formal or literary descriptions of historic upheavals.

• その発はつ明めいは震しん天てん動どう地ちの大だいニュースとして世せ界かい中じゅうに伝つたえられた。

  The invention was reported around the world as earth-shaking news.

• 震しん天てん動どう地ちの出で来き事ごとが国くにを揺ゆるがした。

  An earth-shaking event shook the nation.