turn the tide

Language: en

Meaning: (idiomatic)Toundergoachangeorreversalof ageneraltrend.1962February, “No Talent on the Railways?”, inModern Railways, page74:The general whoturned the tideat Alamein was not, prior to his arrival in the Middle East, one of the very "top brass"; but hewasa soldier, not a detergent manufacturer.2008March 21, Owen Bowcott, “The man who captured the human cost of conflict”, inThe Guardian:Images captured by the photojournalist Philip Jones Griffiths in Vietnam helpedturn the tideof public opinion against the war.

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