turn/stand something on its head

OPPOSITE/FACEto make people think about something in the opposite way to the way it was originally intended 倒过来想某事物；使人完全改变思考某事物的思路

The attorney quickly turned his main defense argument on its head.

那位律师很快扭转了主要的辩护思路。

Examples from the Corpus

turn/stand something on its head• Many of these taboos derive from patriarchal societies taking the power of women and turning it on its head.• Resist that temptation by turning it on its head.• Rather than ignore Philips's cherished necessity principle, the Government turned it on its head.• It turns time on its head.• Another basic political problem here is that the Dole message turns history on its head.• That, of course, is to stand reality on its head, since the industrialised nations are manifestly the real environmental villains.• The next step was to turn reality on its head.• In fact, it would turn Beveridge on its head and use the national insurance system as a tax system.• "You stand logic on its head when you use arms control as an argument for a larger defense budget, " Aspin said.

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词汇	turn/stand something on its head
释义	turn/stand something on its head turn/stand something on its head OPPOSITE/FACEto make people think about something in the opposite way to the way it was originally intended 倒过来想某事物；使人完全改变思考某事物的思路 The attorney quickly turned his main defense argument on its head. 那位律师很快扭转了主要的辩护思路。 Examples from the Corpus turn/stand something on its head• Many of these taboos derive from patriarchal societies taking the power of women and turning it on its head.• Resist that temptation by turning it on its head.• Rather than ignore Philips's cherished necessity principle, the Government turned it on its head.• It turns time on its head.• Another basic political problem here is that the Dole message turns history on its head.• That, of course, is to stand reality on its head, since the industrialised nations are manifestly the real environmental villains.• The next step was to turn reality on its head.• In fact, it would turn Beveridge on its head and use the national insurance system as a tax system.• "You stand logic on its head when you use arms control as an argument for a larger defense budget, " Aspin said. → turn/stand something on its head at head1(24)
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