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turn the scale
Idioms and Phrases
see tip the balance .Example Sentences
I must not think too much of this, or I may be tempted; a good cause might turn the scale with me, for may not I too be of an exceptional brain, congenitally?
Weightless, they turn the scale when the argument is: What happened here?
But in any case it is to be expected that efforts above 23,000 feet will be more exhausting than those at lower elevations; and it may well be that the nature of the ground will turn the scale against the climber.
Should I be the happy mortal destined to turn the scale of war—will you not rejoice, O, my father?
Indeed it is not surprising; for we shall very often, if not always be able to turn the scale.
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