扶摇直上

扶摇直上 [fú yáo zhí shàng]

1. ■ rise directly to a high position; be mounted [mount] on the wings of a typhoon; be promoted quickly in an official career; be successful in one's official career; get up the social ladder quickly; go flickeringly up the sky as a paper kite; make a rapid success in one's career; on the rapid rise; rise high in the world on the wings of the winds; rise rapidly (in the form of a spiral) as prices during inflation; rise steeply; skyrocket; soar on the wings of a cyclone