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PRONUNCIATION OF TURN AND TURN ABOUT

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WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE TURN AND TURN ABOUT

turn a blind eye
turn a blind eye to
turn a deaf ear
turn a trick
turn against
turn away
turn bridge
turn down
turn heads
turn in
turn in on oneself
turn of phrase
turn off
turn on
turn one´s back on
turn one´s hand to
turn out
turn over
turn over a new leaf
turn queen´s evidence

WORDS THAT END LIKE TURN AND TURN ABOUT

about
bout
bring about
come about
get about
go about
just about
kick about
make no bones about
marabout
nothing to write home about
out and about
right about
roundabout
see about
set about
talk about
thereabout
time about
walkabout
what about

Synonyms and antonyms of turn and turn about in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «turn and turn about» into 25 languages

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Translator English - Chinese

转了又转约
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

girar y girar alrededor
570 millions of speakers

English

turn and turn about
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

बारी और के बारे में बारी
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

تحويل وبدوره حول
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

вращать и переворачивать о
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

girar e girar sobre
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

ঘুরুন এবং প্রায় চালু
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

tour à tour
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Belok dan belok
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

einzuschalten und zu
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

オンにし、約ターン
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

켜고 에 대한 설정
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Nguripake lan nguripake
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

lần lượt, và lần lượt về
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

திரும்பவும் திரும்பவும்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

वळणे आणि वळणे
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Dön ve dön
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

girare e girare su
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

włączyć i wyłączyć o
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

обертати і перевертати про
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

rândul său, și rotiți despre
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

στροφή και να μετατρέψει περίπου
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

draai en draai oor
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

vända och vända om
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

snu og vende om
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of turn and turn about

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «TURN AND TURN ABOUT»

The term «turn and turn about» is regularly used and occupies the 85.977 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «TURN AND TURN ABOUT» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about turn and turn about

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «TURN AND TURN ABOUT»

Discover the use of turn and turn about in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to turn and turn about and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Aspects of the History of English Language and Literature: ...
ED 23 etc. (11) Turn and turn about ( in regular succession; in alternate duty) ( Mrs. Gamp) "...Mrs. Prig and me has nussed ('nursed') together, turn and turn about, one off, one on. " MC 25 I starling and 1 were Cook's Mate, turn and turn about.
Osamu Imahayashi, Yoshiyuki Nakao, Michiko Ogura, 2010
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Chambers Universal Learners' Dictionary
... in late. turn (and turn) about one after the other, each taking his turn (n def 4) : They drove the car turn (and turn) about. turn a deaf ear (usu with to) to refuse to listen (to): He turned a deaf ear (to her requests). turn against vtfus to become ...
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Idioms and Phrases
(ii) The rich landlord turned a deaf ear to the appeal for mercy put forward by the poor, old tenants. Turn and turn about Turn first to one side (person} and then in a different direction alternately The DSP turned and turned about but could not ...
Prof. V.N. Sadasiva Rau, Sura College of Competition, 2004
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Visions of Politics
He will be ready at all times 'to turn and turn about as the winds and variations of fortune dictate'.'80 VI Although many Florentine political writers felt ready to endorse. 7:1 Machiavelli 1960, ch. 17, p. 69: 'al principe nuovo e impossihile I' uggirc ...
Quentin Skinner, 2002
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Secreted Desires: The Major Uranians - Hopkins, Pater and Wilde
3 Simon Humphries, '“All By Turn and Turn About”: The Indeterminacy of Hopkins' “Epithalamion”', Victorian Poetry, 38.3 (2000), pp.343-63 (p.343). 4 Robert Bernard Martin, Gerard Manley Hopkins: A Very Private Life (New York: Putnam,  ...
Michael Matthew Kaylor, 2006
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Oyster Wars and the Public Trust: Property, Law, and Ecology ...
Thompson had one half, and Joshua and Joseph the other, fishing, turn and turn about; that after the death of Caleb Carman, Yard, under the lease of Benjamin, claimed one fourth of the fishery, and fished there, one season, taking the fourth ...
Bonnie J. McCay, 1998
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Irish Writing in the Twentieth Century: A Reader
... the same stone, within each group of four, and consequently of my sucking, not the sixteen turn and turn about as I wished, but in fact four only, always the same, turn and turn about. So I had to seek elsewhere than in the mode of circulation.
David Pierce, 2000
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Tuppenny Times
Turn and turn about. 'No,' she agreed, as they met up again at the end of the turn, and he swayed her body into his side ready for the gallop. What bliss to be held so! 'I was born in Suffolk, near Bury St. Edmunds,' she said as the gallop began.
Beryl Kingston, 2012
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TOEIC Test必須イディオム2200: スコア730をとるための
TLh 9 rotate, reverse (SI turn around 1 He turned about so fast that he got dizzy and fell down, (mtfri <V>M< MUltzcDX-. um'l^XW-tz) O cf. turn and turn about (<"• £ C5IP15) O £g»Jli turnabout [tSimabaut] ($AMEit, [MM, 94k, &®, S#r4^«>] tela].
木村恒夫, 2005
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How We Talked and Common Folks
He won't do anything. e) turn - “Turn and turn about is fair play”; You help me and I will help you; one good turn deserves another. f) turn - for milk to turn, or a turn of milk; milk was put in a crock or churn and set before the fire or in the sun so ...
Verna Mae Slone, 2010

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