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About-face   /əbˈaʊt-feɪs/   Listen
About-face

noun
1.
Act of pivoting 180 degrees, especially in a military formation.  Synonym: about turn.
2.
A major change in attitude or principle or point of view.  Synonyms: policy change, reversal, volte-face.
verb
1.
Turn, usually 180 degrees.
2.
Change one's mind and assume the opposite viewpoint.





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"About-face" Quotes from Famous Books



... then it's right-about-face with you and back to Drakeport before I let you go. Do you see this stick? If you attempt to walk a step more towards the port, I'll ...
— Noughts and Crosses • Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
... his back straight, gave the three startled boys a crisp salute, executed a perfect about-face and marched out ...
— Stand by for Mars! • Carey Rockwell
... far side of a fine arch in the entrance hall. Halfway up, it becomes obscured from view, leaving one gazing at a paneled ceiling, as it makes an abrupt about-face. The rooms on the second floor are quaint. Low-pitched, sloping ceilings, off-center mantels with odd panels and chimney closets and six-paneled doors with H&L hinges, are amusing as ...
— Seaport in Virginia - George Washington's Alexandria • Gay Montague Moore
... the Normanised or feudalised Saxon lowlands of Scotland contained all the wealth, all the power, and most of the population of Britain, the Celtic ideals had no chance of realising themselves. But the industrial revolution of the present century has turned us right-about-face, has transferred the balance of power from the secondary strata to the primary strata in Britain; from the agricultural lowlands to the uplands of coal and iron, the cotton factories, the woollen trade. Great industrial cities have grown up in the Celtic or semi-Celtic ...
— Post-Prandial Philosophy • Grant Allen
... about-face, hiding the pictures and telling me to go back to Chicago? Had she threatened whoever was behind this, and gotten her money back? Or had she again become convinced that ...
— The Gallery • Roger Phillips Graham


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