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turn one's back on
Idioms and Phrases
Deny, reject; also abandon, forsake. For example, I can't turn my back on my own daughter, no matter what she's done , or He simply turned his back on them and never gave it a second thought . [c. 1400] Also see when one's back is turned .Example Sentences
"This is not a moment to turn one's back on difficulties, but to confront difficulties, so I am not quitting," Costa told parliament.
To preach sober sex for all, all the time, would be to deliberately turn one’s back on the reality that people like to get messed up and screw.
Francois Delattre said that 25 years after the Oslo Accords started the peace process, “there might be a temptation to turn one’s back on the agreed framework.”
Some moments of the film posed a challenge; Moana raging at the ocean, for example, contravened a Maori cultural rule to never curse or turn one’s back on the sea, so they turned it into a more humorous moment using careful wordplay.
For any person of science or faith, it should be impossible to turn one’s back on a tormented soul.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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