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Turn around   /tərn ərˈaʊnd/   Listen
Turn around

noun
1.
Turning in an opposite direction or position.  Synonym: reversal.
verb
1.
Turn abruptly and face the other way, either physically or metaphorically.  Synonyms: swing about, swing around.  "My conscience told me to turn around before I made a mistake"
2.
Improve dramatically.  "The tutor turned around my son's performance in math"
3.
Improve significantly; go from bad to good.  Synonym: pick up.






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"Turn around" Quotes from Famous Books



... yelled at me to clear the crossing and it didn't hit me for a half block how tall and white she was and how dark her eyes were. I was just thinking about her picking up the flowers, and that it was queer for her to do it, when like a brick it hit me, THAT'S DAVID'S GIRL! I tried to turn around, but you know what Main Street is in the middle of the day. And those idiots of policemen! They ordered me on, and I couldn't turn for a street car coming, so I called to one of them that the girl we wanted was down the street, and ...
— The Harvester • Gene Stratton Porter

... to the front of the mansion, to give one turn around the Lodge, in order to discover in what direction any enemies might be approaching, that they might judge of the road which it was safest for the royal fugitive to adopt. Meanwhile the King, who was first ...
— Woodstock; or, The Cavalier • Sir Walter Scott

... me how it must be done. I'm to hold the wishbone with both hands, like this, and walk backward, repeating the wish nine times. And when I've finished the ninth time I'm to turn around nine times, from right to left, and then the wish ...
— The Golden Road • Lucy Maud Montgomery

... to get away somewhere by himself, to throw himself down some place on the green grass and forget his aches and pains and troubles. He got up to go and find such a place, and found half a dozen of his following tagging after him. He wanted to turn around and scream at them to leave him alone, but his pride restrained him. A great wave of disgust and despair swept over him, and then an idea flashed through his mind. Since he was sure to flunk in his examinations, why endure the afternoon's torture, which could not but be worse than the ...
— The Cruise of the Dazzler • Jack London

... remember, I found a cabbage, and I began to eat it, and I went inside it—And land sakes, goodness me and a trolley car! I'm inside it now!" he cried, as he smelled the cabbage. "I'm shut in the cabbage just as if I was shut in a closet! However did it happen?" and he tried to turn around, and make his way out, but he couldn't, because the stone which the fox had stuffed in the hole closed ...
— Buddy And Brighteyes Pigg - Bed Time Stories • Howard R. Garis


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