turn to sb/sth
— phrasal verb with turn uk/tɜːn/us/tɝːn/verb
B2 to ask a person or organization for help or support:
Without someone to turn to for advice, making the most appropriate choice can be difficult.
Her family lived a long way away, and she had no one to turn to.
More examples
- I have always been able to turn to my parents when I've had a problem.
- He felt he had no-one to turn to.
- He turned to his friend for financial support.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Trusting and not trusting
- (you can) depend on/upon it idiom
- accept/take sth on faith idiom
- bank
- bank on sb/sth
- believe
- believe in sb
- count
- distrust
- faith
- have faith! idiom
- I wouldn't trust sb as far as I could throw them idiom
- keep faith with sth/sb idiom
- lean
- put/place your faith in sth/sb idiom
- reliance
- rely on/upon sb/sth
- repose
- repose trust/confidence/hope in sb/sth idiom
- trust
- turn
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