Turn the clock back
see: set back , def. 3.
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- Turn the other cheek
Turn the other cheek definition An adaptation of a command of Jesus in the Sermon on the Mount: “Ye have heard that it hath been said, “An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth”; but I say unto you, that ye resist not evil: but whosoever shall smite thee on thy right […]
- Turn thumbs down
see under thumbs up
- Turn to good account
Use for one’s benefit, as in He turned the delay to good account, using the time to finish correspondence. This idiom, first recorded in 1878, uses account in the sense of “a reckoning.”
- Turnup
noun 1. something that is turned up or that turns up. 2. upturn (def 6). 3. British. a cuff on a pair of trousers. 4. Chiefly British. fight; row; disturbance. adjective 5. that is or may be turned up.
- Turn up like a bad penny
see: turn up , def. 3.