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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

... good right now, Malone thought, but he didn't say a word. He felt the Queen's eye on him but didn't turn around. After all, she was on his ...

— That Sweet Little Old Lady • Gordon Randall Garrett (AKA Mark Phillips)

... this growing glory butterflies flutter, and bees go hither and thither, and still higher zigzag dozens of dragonflies. Behind us, a few steps away, is the brook Minnelowan, whose musical murmur is in our ears, but we will not turn around just yet. Truly it is good to be here; to rest from the world of conventionality; to get into harmony with nature; to steep our souls in the wildness, the freshness, and the eternal youth of the growing ...

— Upon The Tree-Tops • Olive Thorne Miller

... turn around and come back with me, and I'll show some other ways of getting out—ways that lie under the open sky, Doone. Would you like that better? Do you want starlight and John Mark—or a little stretch of darkness, ...

— Ronicky Doone • Max Brand

... to tell him that a dangerous runaway was close upon him, had just decided to slacken his pace and turn around to investigate, when he felt a hand laid on ...

— Two Boys and a Fortune • Matthew White, Jr.

... to it very respectfully, for it was a thing to inspire awe. "I want to go as far as Smuggler's Cove and then turn around in the air and come back here," he said. At once the umbrella rose into the air, lifting after it first the seat in which the children sat, and ...

— Sky Island - Being the further exciting adventures of Trot and Cap'n - Bill after their visit to the sea fairies • L. Frank Baum

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