Today’s “Phrase of the Day” is turn one’s back on and its meaning is “abandon, give up, reject, renounce, ignore, refuse, decline, turn down, disapprove, throw out, throw up, have done with“.
Example Sentence: In the lead-up to Turkey’s presidential election on Sunday, there seemed to be good grounds to believe that voters were about to turn their back on Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s authoritarian brand of nationalism… That optimism has turned out to be sadly misplaced. As it transpired, it was Mr Erdoğan who almost won at the first time of asking, winning over 49% of votes to Mr Kılıçdaroğlu’s 45%.
This phrase is present in The Guardian view on Turkey’s election results: a step towards autocracy? and click here to read it.
Courtesy: The Guardian
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