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Definition of Turn the tables
1. Verb. Cause a complete reversal of the circumstances. "The tables are turned now that the Republicans are in power!"
Definition of Turn the tables
1. Verb. (idiomatic) To reverse a situation, such that the advantage has shifted to the party which was previously disadvantaged. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Turn The Tables
Literary usage of Turn the tables
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Antiquary by Edward Walford, John Charles Cox, George Latimer Apperson (1884)
"More light, ye knaves ; and turn the tables up. In a vocabulary of the fifteenth
century the ordinary furniture of the hall is enumerated as follows :— A ..."
2. The Reader's Handbook of Allusions, References, Plots and Stories: With Two by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer (1880)
"Turn the Tables, to rebut a charge by a counter-charge, so that the accused
becomes in ... By a few limply words to turn the tables. Byron, Don Juan, L 73. ..."
3. Report of the Proceedings and Evidence in the Arbitration Between the King by John Ricord, Stephen H. Williams, Ladd & Co, Hawaii Office of the Attorney General, Hawaii, James F. B. Marshall, Office of the Attorney General (1846)
"We have a right to turn the tables upon them, and to answer them, that there is
something rotten in the thing, which may reflect upon the character or ..."
4. Reminiscences of Senator William M. Stewart, of Nevada by William Morris Stewart (1908)
"CHAPTER XVI Chollar and Potosi controversy — Exposure of bribed jurors — I turn
the tables on my enemies — Three judges resign in one day — $14000 in ..."
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