turn the tables

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turn the tables (on someone/something)

to change a situation so that someone's position is the opposite of what it was. She turned the tables by playing a better game and recently has won most of her matches. Hendricks turned the tables on the media when he borrowed a camera from a TV crew and started filming. Dan was always the one in trouble, but now the tables are turned and he's doing very well.

See also: table, turn

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If we should turn the tables, some day, thou and I, and go over and see it for ourselves. A Bundle of Letters by James, Henry View in context the girls have only to turn the tables, and say of one of their own sex, "She is as vain as a man," and they will have perfect reason. Vanity Fair by Thackeray, William Makepeace View in context Oh, certainly,' rejoined Nicholas; 'but suppose I were to turn the tables, and pull HIS nose, what then? The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby by Dickens, Charles View in context More results

References in classic literature

If we should turn the tables, some day, thou and I, and go over and see it for ourselves.

A Bundle of Letters by James, Henry View in context

the girls have only to turn the tables, and say of one of their own sex, "She is as vain as a man," and they will have perfect reason.

Vanity Fair by Thackeray, William Makepeace View in context

Oh, certainly,' rejoined Nicholas; 'but suppose I were to turn the tables, and pull HIS nose, what then?

The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby by Dickens, Charles View in context

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