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Turn the tables

verb

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  1. 1
    To reverse a situation, so that the advantage has shifted to the party which was previously disadvantaged. idiomatic

    "Well, the tables are turned—the times are changed. A peaceful and unoffending man might have expected from a neighbour, now powerful in his turn, such protection when walking in the paths of the law, as all men, subjects of the realm, have a right to expect even from perfect strangers."

  2. 2
    cause a complete reversal of the circumstances wordnet

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