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Swing about   /swɪŋ əbˈaʊt/   Listen
Swing about

verb
1.
Turn abruptly and face the other way, either physically or metaphorically.  Synonyms: swing around, turn around.  "My conscience told me to turn around before I made a mistake"






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"Swing about" Quotes from Famous Books



... 1915, the battle flamed up at Sejny and Berzniki, the Russian corps, which had developed its front toward the west, being forced to swing about and face the north, whence the Germans were driving down upon it. At Berzniki two Russian regiments made up entirely of young troops were, according to the German account, completely annihilated, and the commanders of the regiments captured. It ...
— The Story of the Great War, Volume V (of 12) - Neuve Chapelle, Battle of Ypres, Przemysl, Mazurian Lakes • Francis J. Reynolds, Allen L. Churchill, and Francis Trevelyan



Words linked to "Swing about" :   turn, turn around, swing around



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