rise from the ashes

rise from the ashes

To emerge renewed, revitalized, or reborn as something different following some total destruction or ruin. A reference to the mythical phoenix, a bird that in many stories bursts into flames upon its death, being born again among the ashes. Over the next few years, a new tower rose from the ashes of the heinous attack, standing as a monument of the country's strength and pride. The company quietly faded into obscurity following its bankruptcy in the late '90s, but now that it has been purchased by the billionaire CEO, it has begun rising from the ashes like the phoenix.
See also: ash, rise
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

rise from the ashes

Fig. [for a structure] to be rebuilt after destruction. The entire west section of the city was destroyed and a group of new buildings rose from the ashes in only a few months. Will the city rise again from the ashes? No one knows.
See also: ash, rise
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.

rise from the ashes

Emerge as new from something that has been destroyed, as in A few months after the earthquake large sections of the city had risen from the ashes. This expression alludes to the legendary phoenix, a bird that supposedly rose from the ashes of its funeral pyre with renewed youth.
See also: ash, rise
The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.

rise from the ashes

be renewed after destruction.
In classical mythology, the phoenix was a unique bird resembling an eagle that lived for five or six centuries in the Arabian desert. After this time it burned itself on a funeral pyre ignited by the sun and fanned by its own wings and was then born again from the ashes with renewed youth to live through another cycle of life. The simile like a phoenix from the ashes is used of someone or something that has made a fresh start after apparently experiencing total destruction.
See also: ash, rise
Farlex Partner Idioms Dictionary

ˌrise from the ˈashes

become successful or powerful again after defeat or destruction: Can a new party rise from the ashes of the old one?This idiom refers to the story of the phoenix, a mythological bird which burns to death and then rises from the ashes to be born again.
See also: ash, rise
Farlex Partner Idioms Dictionary
See also:
  • be on a collision course
  • singe (one's) wings
  • singe your wings
  • keep the wolf from the door
  • keep the wolf from the door, to
  • play Old Harry with (something)
  • it is all up with
  • it is all up with (someone or something)
  • play the devil with
  • play the devil with someone/something
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