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turn the tables

VERB
  1. cause a complete reversal of the circumstances
    The tables are turned now that the Republicans are in power!

How To Use turn the tables In A Sentence

  • The four of them turn the tables on Eddington and end up bilking him out of millions.
  • How shall I baste you? she torments the trapped children in her house of sugary temptation before the kids, as legend demands, turn the tables on her and toss her in the oven. Matt's TV Week in Review
  • Wayland then manages to turn the tables on them in a rather surprising string of plot twists.
  • Enough Californians quite rightly wanted to turn the tables on the governor and if this meant setting the pasteboard crown on his rival's head, they said, so be it.
  • The only question is whether the President can use his extraordinary political skills to turn the tables on his opponents.
  • She outsprinted Carroll to win the 2000 race - only to have Carroll turn the tables on her in similar fashion at the 2002 finish.
  • The story turns rote, like a billion spy novels where the rogue agent has to meet his superiors and turn the tables.
  • What happens when a small town girl decides to turn the tables on some governmental lechers?
  • Christ knows how they expected me to turn the tables on the cut-throat boarders, but they were happy to clutch at whatever straw was offered. 365 tomorrows » 2009 » July : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day
  • So experts are proposing to turn the tables on this hungry predator.
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