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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



... this barrel, concealed so that no one could see within, were placed three most prominent musicians of the village, Ivan with his violin, Semen with his concertina and Nicholas with his drum. As soon as the conductor outside pulled a string, the lever began to turn around and the musicians in the barrel had to start to play. In the corner of the house this strange instrument looked like a mysterious engine, one knew not whether to expect it to develop into a flying or moving ...
— Defenders of Democracy • Militia of Mercy

... was suddenly broken. Hasty steps traversed the little chapel. A rush of garments caused Amelie and Heloise to turn around, and in an instant they were both clasped in the passionate embrace of the Lady de Tilly, who had ...
— The Golden Dog - Le Chien d'Or • William Kirby

... subject of duty, his word, an unteachable disposition, which not only refuses to obey when the commandments are presented, but absolutely persists in opposing them. A man in this condition is worse than ignorant, his heart is irreconciled to the government of God, and he may turn around and around and die in sin and transgression. Do you object that God controls in conversion, and, therefore, the man is illuminated in a mysterious manner, and necessitated aright—that he is a necessitated moral agent? Necessitated moral ...
— The Christian Foundation, Or, Scientific and Religious Journal, Volume I, No. 12, December, 1880 • Various

... nay'las). They have no heel and just a catch to put the toe in. They have no laces. With them we slide along the ground. But we cannot back up straight, or run last in them. If we wish to go back we must turn around, so as to keep our chinelas on our toes. The young people do not wear stockings in our warm climate, where one lives close to Nature,—too close sometimes, when the ...
— Fil and Filippa - Story of Child Life in the Philippines • John Stuart Thomson

... tryin' to keep up with Lizzie,' says I. 'The way to beat Lizzie is to go toward the other end o' the road. Ye see, you've dragged yer father into the race, an' he's about winded. Turn around an' let Lizzie try to keep up with you. Second, change yer base. Go to a school of agriculture an' learn the business just as you'd go to a school o' law or medicine. Begin modest. Live within yer means. If you do right I'll ...
— Keeping up with Lizzie • Irving Bacheller


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