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词汇 turn the corner
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Idiom
turn the corner
if something or someone turns the corner, their situation starts to improve after a difficult period.
Certainly, the company's been through difficult times but I think we can safely say that we have now turned the corner.I was really ill on Tuesday and Wednesday but I think I've finally turned the corner.
idiomturn the corner1 to start to feel better or happier after being very ill or unhappy:We knew Dad had turned the corner when he started complaining about the hospital food.I began to turn the corner after reading Norwood's book and realized I couldn't change my husband.2 if a business, the economy etc turns the corner it begins to make a profit or be more successful after a bad or difficult time:The hotel started to turn the corner when it expanded and began to take on conferences.Stock prices turned the corner towards the end of the week, to everyone's relief.

turn the corner

To begin to find success or improvement after a particularly difficult or troubling period. I know that rehab has been hard on you, but I feel like you've been really turning the corner lately. Their new startup took a couple of years to get going, but they turned the corner when their product was featured in a high-profile tech magazine.

turn the corner

Fig. to pass a critical point in a process. The patient turned the corner last night. She should begin to show improvement now. The project has turned the corner. The rest should be easy.

turn the corner

Pass a milestone or critical point, begin to recover. For example, Experts say the economy has turned the corner and is in the midst of an upturn, or The doctor believes he's turned the corner and is on the mend. This expression alludes to passing around the corner in a race, particularly the last corner. [First half of 1800s]

turn the corner

If someone or something turns the corner, they begin to recover from a serious illness or a difficult situation. It's been a nasty, long illness but I think he's finally turned the corner. Has California's economy finally turned the corner? In April the official figure for the state's unemployment rate dropped for the second month running.

turn the corner

pass the critical point and start to improve.

turn the ˈcorner

pass the most dangerous point of an illness or the most difficult part of something, and begin to improve: The doctors say she’s turned the corner now. She should be out of hospital soon.Now that we’re beginning to pay back the money we owe, I feel we’ve turned the corner.

turn the corner, to

To begin to recover. Corner here refers to a street corner, and turning it betokens going in a new and presumably better direction. However, this expression was used in several different senses in the past. “That expression . . . He has turn’d the corner, i.e., gone away so as no more to be seen,” wrote Samuel Pegge (Anonymiana, 1796), defining the term to be synonymous with dying. Both Dickens and Trollope used it in the sense of financial recovery. “Now he had turned the corner, he could afford [it],” wrote Trollope in Orley Farm (1862).
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