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/tərn ərˈaʊnd/ Listen

Turn around

noun

Turning in an opposite direction or position. Synonym: reversal.

verb

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"

Improve dramatically. "The tutor turned around my son's performance in math"

Improve significantly; go from bad to good. Synonym: pick up.

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"Turn around" Quotes from Famous Books

... the matter with him before he got bad off. I know it's a risk. I'm goose-flesh all over. But somebody's got to take the risk. The guess I've made may be insane, but if it's right one or two lives will be cheap enough as a price for the information. Suppose you chaps turn around and take me to ...

— Astounding Stories of Super-Science, May, 1930 • Various

... high ground near the foot of the hill at the canyon's mouth she asked him to turn around and stop. Willard Holmes had been too much occupied with the team and the girl to notice the landscape; and now that wonderful view of the Mesa, The King's Basin and the mountains burst upon him without warning. No sane man could be insensible ...

— The Winning of Barbara Worth • Harold B Wright

... would offer a very effective rigidity. Now suppose them to sweat in those confined quarters their fat away, their phlogiston, their caloric. If the walls of the car remained rigid while the individuals therein shrunk they might after a while be able to turn around or even move around in a car. Such is then the supposed condition of the atoms in the FOURTH, the central, layer of the earth's crust. This assumes that the middle layer is rigid and sustains itself, like the shell of a nut, as in the figure, while within the atoms are ...

— Popular Science Monthly Volume 86

... sort of fellow, George," declared Felix; "I've seen you turn around as quick as a flash, just as if you thought some other scout might be hanging his pack on to yours, so as to make ...

— The Boy Scouts of Lenox - Or The Hike Over Big Bear Mountain • Frank V. Webster

... even if she does know I am married but if I do write her something I will make it comical and no mushy stuff in it. But it does seem like fate or something that the harder I try and not get mixed up in a flirtation I can't turn around you might say but what they's some gal poping up on my trail and if it was anybody else only Miss Moselle I wouldn't mind but she is a darb and I wouldn't do nothing to hurt her for the world but they can't nobody ...

— The Real Dope • Ring Lardner

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