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单词 to face right about
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to face right about
P2. to face about (also to face right about and variants): to turn the face in the opposite direction (also figurative). Hence (Military) as imperative: right (also left) about face! Cf. about-face v. 1; right-about face adv. Also figurative.
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the mind > mental capacity > belief > expressed belief, opinion > change of opinion > change one's mind [phrase]
to pick (also peck) mooda1225
to turn, wend the luff?c1225
to sing another song or a different tune1390
to waive (one's) wit1390
to change one's minda1500
to change (turn, alter) one's copy1523
to turn (one's) tippet1546
to change one's note1560
to shift hands1611
to face about1645
to change (swap) horses in midstream (while crossing a stream)1864
to sing another tune1890
the mind > will > decision > irresolution or vacillation > reversal of or forsaking one's will or purpose > reverse or abandon one's purpose [verb (intransitive)] > desert one's party or principles
declinec1374
starta1450
revert?a1525
to fall away1535
to turn (one's) tippet1546
revolt1549
shrink1553
to turn one's coat1565
to come over1576
apostate1596
to change (one's) sides1596
defect1596
renegade1611
to change foot1618
to run over1643
to face about1645
apostatize1648
tergiverse1675
tergiversate1678
desert1689
apostasize1696
renegado1731
rat1810
to cross the floor1822
turncoat1892
to take (the) soup1907
turn1977
1645 Liberty of Consc. 28 In this Sir you have faced about, sure you are not As you were.
1647 N. Bacon Hist. Disc. Govt. 217 He faces about therefore, and..for Scotland he goes.
a1671 T. Fairfax Short Mem. (1699) 51 He..made them face about, and march again into the Town.
1684 J. Bunyan Pilgrim's Progress 2nd Pt. Authors Way sig. A8 His Spirit was so stout No Man could ever make him face about . View more context for this quotation
1713 R. Steele Englishman No. 55. 353 This elevated Machine..moved through..Cornhil: whence it faced about.
1787 Columbian Mag. 1 47 To the right about face! Forward march! Halt, and face to the Front!
1820 J. Keats Cap & Bells xxxvi. 1 Then facing right about, he saw the Page.
1823 Ld. Byron Don Juan: Canto VIII xxviii. 125 The rest had faced unto the right About.
1863 A. W. Kinglake Invasion of Crimea II. App. iv. 558 These men had faced about to the front.
1874 H. James Let. 9 Jan. (1974) I. 424 I was on the point of sending it to Scribner, but your words in deprecation of this course made me face about.
1922 J. Joyce Ulysses 81 He saw the priest bend down and kiss the altar and then face about and bless all the people.
1996 S. W. Sears Chancellorsville xiv. 372 The troops best positioned to face about to meet this new crisis were Lafayette McLaw's three brigades.
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