u-turn
转弯,转身,调头,掉头
Definitions
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- : a U-shaped turn made by a vehicle so as to head in the opposite direction from its original course.
- : a reversal of policy, tactics, or the like, resembling such a maneuver.
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- : to execute a U-turn: to U-turn into oncoming traffic.
Synonyms & Antonyms
Examples
So far, all the players seemed to be willing to wait their turn.
Third parties in turn quibbled with his accounts, and he was irritated, but not overly so.
An ace comedic turn that, in lesser hands, would come off as one-note.
Who do you turn to now when you have a decision to make, when you have one less person to provide validation or advice?
In other words, Florida clerks were no longer allowed to turn gay couples away.
Turn away from sin and order thy hands aright, and cleanse thy heart from all offence.
U was an Usurer, a miserable elf; V was a Vintner, who drank all himself.
He shall give his mind to turn up furrows, and his care is to give the kine fodder.
Turn not away thy face from thy neighbour, and of taking away a portion and not restoring.
Turn we our backs to the cold gloomy north, to the wet windy west, to the dry parching east—on to the south!