turn the tide
TERN the TYD
tɜːrn ðə taɪdListen
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to reverse the direction of events in a conflict, competition, or ongoing struggle so that what was previously going badly begins to go well, or a trend that was moving in one direction is reversed in another; the tidal metaphor draws on the powerful, rhythmic reversal of ocean tides as a natural model for the possibility of decisive reversal in human affairs; in military history it is applied to battles or campaigns that mark the turning point of a war, after which the previously losing side begins to gain the upper hand; in social and political discourse it describes moments of policy change, popular mobilisation, or cultural shift that reverse a trend that had seemed inexorable
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