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老天爷帮忙

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期望老天爷帮忙
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祈求老天爷帮忙
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靠老天爷帮忙
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有老天爷帮忙
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老天爷帮忙,他终于……

Definition

老天爷帮忙

Literally means:

owing to the help of God or Heaven

Actually means:

老天爷, Heaven, is used by superstitious people to refer to the god who is in charge of everything above the earth.

This phrase means one meets something lucky when he is in difficulty.

老天爷,迷信的人尊称天上主宰一切的神。

老天爷帮忙,指人在困境中遇到幸运的事。

Example

Used as a minor sentence or object. It can be used with other words in between. (作小句、宾语,中间可以插入别的词语)
1
Lǎotiān
老天爷
bāngmáng
帮忙
  
,
ràng
dào
遇到
le
duōnián
多年
qián
de
hǎoyǒu
好友
  
,
bāng
bǎituō
摆脱
le
kùnjìng
困境
  

God help, let him meet many years ago friends, help him out of trouble.

2
nián
去年
lián
连续
liǎng
shuǐ
大水
  
,
xìngkuī
幸亏
yǒu
lǎotiān
老天爷
bāngmáng
帮忙
  
,
zhè
liǎng
cháng
zāinàn
灾难
dōu
méiyǒu
没有
yǐngxiǎng
影响
dào
men
我们
cūn
  

Last year, two consecutive floods, thanks to God's help, neither disaster affected our village.

3
Zhège
这个
guójiā
国家
de
shānlín
山林
huǒ
大火
shāo
le
sān
tiān
sān
  
,
zhōng
终于
kào
lǎotiān
老天爷
bāngmáng
帮忙
  
,
bèi
cháng
xià
le
zhěngtiān
一整天
de
大雨
jiāo
miè
le
  

The country's forest fire burned for three days and three nights, finally relying on God's help, was a day of heavy rain poured out.