change sides


Also found in: Legal.

change sides

To switch one's loyalties. My aunt is determined to bring me over to her political party, ignoring the fact that I am not remotely interested in changing sides! You can't get me to change sides! I'm a fan of the Yankees through and through!
See also: change, side
References in periodicals archive ?
He was actually signalling that the Free Syrian Army is getting ready to change sides. There will have to be amnesties and financial rewards for those who change sides, of course, but these things are easily arranged.
Opinion: Syrian Peace Talks - by Gwynne Dyer
He was actually signaling that The Free Syrian Army is getting ready to change sides. There will have to be amnesties and financial rewards for those who change sides, of course, but these things are easily arranged.
Syrian peace talks loom
Stay in the same direction with a hedge on your right and in a few yards change sides with the hedge to continue along a series of pools on the right.
Stroll has plenty to catch the eye; Country Walks
'I change sides regularly otherwise you get lines on your face,' he says.
It's Beauty and the creased
Two more levels remain: Ineffective Combat Operations and Change Sides.
Terrorist warning levels raised
Caleb Parker is one of 257,000 free persons of color living in the Confederacy; when war breaks out, he and his best friend enlist in the Union militia, yet Yankee atrocities force them to change sides and fight for the Confederacy.
Reconstructed Yankee
This is not to urge that those who genuinely believe in the Euro should change sides for the sake of opportunism, but merely to point out the grave dangers of a flawed analysis of the true views of this country upon this issue.
Letter: Squandered opportunity
Sometimes I have to change sides of the table, so being able to say yes helps when, eventually, I have to be the naysayer.
The changing role of the business officer: it's a brave new world for the folks who hold the purse strings. (People & Politics)
IN ADDITION, THE COMPLEX weave of tribal factions, some of which change sides frequently, will make it hard for the U.S.
Down in the dirt: how and when might the war in Afghanistan end? Here's an inside look from a Special Forces expert
Now it is time to change sides and repeat the exercise.
Get your mind and body in shape with a yoga routine
Looking at the plans and models for Gehry's building, and at photographs of the site, I remembered Cezanne - also a complainer asking, "When the hell are they going to make a painter, a real one, the head of the Louvre?" Fritsch's project must be built, if only so that the museum's detractors and defenders will be able - at least this once - to change sides.
Best of show
Do six repetitions then change sides and repeat to complete one full set.
fit tip; Health
What happens when the enemy - supposedly persuaded to change sides - have spent the first tranche of cash?
Terror on the never never
"I change sides regularly, otherwise you get lines on your face and end up with one eye higher than the other," he says.
Gav's a star in his eyes
The Ukraine international said: 'I think destiny decided to change sides and give the Cup to Liverpool.
Football: Shev praise
Idioms browser ?
Full browser ?