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- take a turn for the better
take a turn for the better
take a turn for the better
to start to improve; to start to get well. She was very sick for a month; then suddenly she took a turn for the better. Things are taking a turn for the better at my store. I may make a profit this year.
take a turn for the better
Improve, as in We thought she was on her deathbed but now she's taken a turn for the better. The antonym is take a turn for the worse, meaning "get worse, deteriorate," as in Unemployment has been fairly low lately, but now the economy's taken a turn for the worse . This idiom employs turn in the sense of "a reversal," a usage dating from about 1600.
Common Names:
Name | Gender | Pronounced | Usage |
Danika | | - | English (Modern) |
Liat | | - | Hebrew |
Hevel | | - | Hebrew, Biblical Hebrew |
Nathanael | | nay-THAN-ee-əl (English), nay-THAN-yəl (English) | Biblical, Biblical Greek |
Walburga | | - | German |
Aurelijus | | - | Lithuanian |