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Phrase(s): 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.
McGrawhill's American Idioms And Phrasal Verbs
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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.
American Heritage Idioms