Brewer's: Catastrophe

(4 syl.). A turning upside down. The termination of a drama is always a “turning upside down” of the beginning of the plot. (Greek, kata-strepho.)

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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