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turn the tables
- To reverse a situation and gain the upper hand: “After trailing the entire first quarter, the team rallied and finally turned the tables.”
Idioms and Phrases
Reverse a situation and gain the upper hand, as in Steffi won their previous three matches but today Mary turned the tables and prevailed . This expression alludes to the former practice of reversing the table or board in games such as chess, thereby switching the opponents' positions. [c. 1600]Example Sentences
So how, after decades of pain, have Scotland turned the tables in recent years and put a Calcutta Cup hex on the English?
Three wins in a row, including against Pittsburgh, have turned the tables on the Steelers, who have dropped three straight in a brutal Christmas schedule.
McLaren have turned the tables in the second half of the season, in which their car has qualified on average 0.124secs faster than the Red Bull.
Trump won the election despite being a convicted felon with multiple criminal cases pending against him, and after having promised to use the Justice Department to turn the tables and go after his political foes.
After Biden's gaffe, the Trump campaign was eager to turn the tables on Democrats for once.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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