| 单词 | to turn on its head |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto turn (also stand) (something) on its head c. to turn (also stand) (something) on its head: to put (something) into a state of disorder or confusion; to reverse or overturn (a system, situation, etc.). ΚΠ 1883 Lake Park Vindicator (Oak Park, Illinois) 25 May Pattison is ineligible.., and Butler has stood the machinery of Massachusetts on its head. 1896 E. Eggleston Beginners of Nation iii. iii. 338 For a woman to teach and to have revelations was to stand the world on its head. 1918 T. Veblen Higher Learning in Amer. ii. 78 Plato's classic scheme of folly, which would have the philosophers take over the management of affairs, has been turned on its head. 1975 Guardian 22 May 23/8 Just when England looked as though they might stroll the rest of the evening Wales stood the game on its head. 1992 Time 22 June 30/3 The procedure is a form of gene therapy, but it turns conventional molecular engineering on its head. 2009 Independent 14 Sept. 1/3 Giving addicts drugs such as heroin on a maintenance basis, rather than weaning them off them, turns existing policy on its head. < as lemmas |
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