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turn around
Idioms and Phrases
Reverse the direction or course of something or someone, as in He has a way of turning around a failing business , or If someone doesn't turn him around he's headed for trouble . [Late 1800s]Example Sentences
This event, know as “Turn Around Tuesday,” enraged many of the demonstrators, especially the young SNCC activists.
But if you try compel them to use technology to improve gun safety, they turn around and sue you.
Lucky for the artist, Chapman continued to turn around to survey the room.
“It was too late for us to turn around,” Maksymenko told The Daily Beast.
For most of the day, they remain in stalls at least 60-square feet, where they can turn around and lie down.
The Goblin looked back despairingly, and Davy just caught the words, "I don't know how to turn around!"
I've been sailing one way for ever so long, because I don't know how to turn around; but there's a landing-place just ahead.
We two of the Society have a wooden cabin in which we can scarcely turn around when we have a table in it.
When the second hand hit the "30" mark, he would turn around and the person nearest would be It.
If you'll let me turn around, I'll admit that the sun comes at midnight, if you say it does, Billy Little.
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