Turnabout Phrases

Phrases

• A hands turn
• A lot of fuss about nothing
• A turn for the worse
• About face
• About time too
• About to find pups
• About turn
• All About Eve (Bette Davis movie)
• Arse about face
• Bad turn
• Bandy about
• Bang on about
• Beat about the bush
• Boss about
• Bugger about
• Buggin's turn

• Bum about
• Can't Turn You Loose (Otis Redding song)
• Come about
• Cut up about
• Didn't turn a hair
• Do a good turn
• Don't go on about it
• Don't trouble your pretty little head about it
• Done to a turn
• Even a worm will turn
• Everything You Wanted To Know About Sex But Were Afraid To Ask (Woody Allen movie)
• Extra, extra, read all about it
• Fall about laughing
• Fall about your ears
• Fasten your seatbelts, it's going to be a bumpy night (All About Eve)
• Gad about

• Go about your business
• Go on about
• Go to see a man about a dog
• Hand's turn
• Handbrake turn (180 degree turn in a car by locking the back wheels)
• Hang about
• Harp on about
• Have a thing about
• Have you any last requests? (humorous question asked as though a person was about to be killed)
• Have your wits about you
• Hedged about
• How about that?
• I don't know much about art but I know what I like
• I may not know much about art, but I know what I like
• If you can keep your head when all about you (from a poem by Kipling)
• In out, in out, shake it all about

• In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on (Robert Frost quotation)
• It's about time
• It's all about you (People Telecom advertising slogan)
• Keep on about
• Keep your wits about you
• Knock about
• Knock about comedy
• Know what you are about
• Lark about
• Loaf about
• Make a song and dance about
• Make no bones about
• Man about town
• Messing about in boats
• Milling about
• Much Ado About Nothing

• Muck about
• Nothing is real and nothing to get hung about (The Beatles song lyric)
• Nothing to worry your pretty little head about
• Nothing to write home about
• Now they whisper to her not about her (Cashmere Bouquet Soap advertising slogan)
• On the turn
• One good turn deserves another
• One two many and you might turn Bertie (Bassett's Liquorice Allsorts advertising slogan)
• Order about
• Out and about
• Piss about
• Please turn over
• Ponce about
• Potter about
• Read all about it
• Sanka, everything you love about coffee (Sanka advertising slogan)

• Scouting about
• Something About You (Four Tops song)
• Something to crow about
• Sorry about that, Chief. (A catchphrase from Get Smart)
• Stop faffing about
• Stop messing about (A catchphrase from Kenneth Williams)
• Take a turn for the worse
• Talks about talks
• Tell me about it
• Tell them about the honey, mummy (Sugar Puffs advertising slogan)
• That just about takes the biscuit
• That's about it
• That's about the size of it
• The smallest worm will turn, being trodden on
• There's Something About Mary (Cameron Diaz movie)
• There's a lot of it about (A catchphrase from Spike Milligan)

• There's something about her
• There's something funny about it
• There's too much arson about here
• Throw your weight about
• Too Busy Thinking About My Baby (Marvin Gaye song)
• Turn a blind eye
• Turn a trick
• Turn back the clock
• Turn coat
• Turn geese into swans
• Turn heads
• Turn in
• Turn it in
• Turn of events
• Turn of phrase
• Turn of the century

• Turn on
• Turn on a dime
• Turn on the fun (Best Buy advertising slogan)
• Turn on your heel
• Turn on, tune in, drop out (A catchphrase from Timothy Leary)
• Turn over a new leaf
• Turn that frown upside down
• Turn the clock back
• Turn the corner
• Turn the other cheek
• Turn the tables
• Turn the tide
• Turn to ashes in your mouth
• Turn turtle
• Turn up for the books
• Turn up the heat

• Turn up your toes
• Turn your back on
• Turn your nose up at
• Turn your stomach
• Up and about
• Watch out there's a Humphrey about (Milk Marketing Board advertising slogan)
• What's It All About, Alfie? (Michael Caine movie)
• What's all the fuss about?
• You are now free to move about the country (Southwest Airlines advertising slogan)
• You can't keep quiet about a Wispa (Cadbury's Wispa advertising slogan)