Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
table-tipping .
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Examples
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The second key to understanding Capote's malice involves what Mr. Schultz calls "table-turning," or "pre-emptive abandonment"—hurt them before they hurt you.
Strange, If Tru James Campbell 2011
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Alternatively, AIA might launch a table-turning takeover bid.
Prudential Reaps Rewards of Plan B Hester Plumridge 2011
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And when Mr. Schultz writes that "the 'ouch' script and the 'table-turning' script were both powerful determinants of Capote's thoughts, feelings, and behavior," the reader might feel that he is both over-complicating and over-simplifying.
Strange, If Tru James Campbell 2011
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Tranh also has a table-turning encounter with a former employee, fired in disgrace by Tranh himself but who is now much better off than his former boss.
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Tranh also has a table-turning encounter with a former employee, fired in disgrace by Tranh himself but who is now much better off than his former boss.
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And now we're asked to accept the table-turning decision of Jason Mesnick, AKA The Bachelor.
Holly Cara Price: Rubbernecking: The Bachelor: After the Final Rose, Part 2 2009
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Tranh also has a table-turning encounter with a former employee, fired in disgrace by Tranh himself but who is now much better off than his former boss.
REVIEW: The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year Volume 1 edited by Jonathan Strahan 2007
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Tranh also has a table-turning encounter with a former employee, fired in disgrace by Tranh himself but who is now much better off than his former boss.
REVIEW: The Year's Best Science Fiction #24 edited by Gardner Dozois 2007
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Rage that mutilation of women's bodies and souls are daily fodder for primetime TV, whereas this one instance of table-turning has caused such a huge hissyfit.
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This is a little table-turning on the calls by some No on 8 supporters for a boycott of businesses that gave to the proposition.
Phil Bronstein: Focus on the Family Saves Christmas -- Thank God! 2008
vendingmachine commented on the word table-turning
See table-moving, table-tipping, spirit-rapping.
March 7, 2016