Right-about-face
adv, noun, verb ·Uncommon ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 Synonym of about-face.
"The Toronto share market staged a right-about face in the last hour today and advanced in active trading after four hours of dullness and small sales."
- 1 Synonym of about-face.
"So we right-about-faced and started back again, stumbling as if we were boozed, slipping, puffing, splashing, and bespattering ourselves. One of the boys cried to me through the wind and rain: 'We'll go back with you as far as your home, all the same. As we've nowhere to go we've plenty of time.'"
- 1 Synonym of about-face.
"The urge to reach the Klondike had become a habit more than an obsession, and when at last on June 30 they walked glumly down the gangplank at Dawson most of them turned right-about-face and went home again."
Example
More examples"The Toronto share market staged a right-about face in the last hour today and advanced in active trading after four hours of dullness and small sales."
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