to bounce back, to overcome
Minha vida sempre foi difícil, mas graças a Deus eu dei a volta por cima!
My life has always been difficult, but thank God I bounced back!
Unusually, this expression has a known author. It was coined by the scientist and composer Paulo Vanzolini in his samba Volta por Cima (around 1959, first recorded in the early 1960s), whose lyric vows to rise again after a fall.
Source: Sesc São Paulo.
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