TURN OF EXPRESSION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does turn of expression mean? 

• TURN OF EXPRESSION (noun)
  The noun TURN OF EXPRESSION has 1 sense:

1. a distinctive spoken or written expression

  Familiarity information: TURN OF EXPRESSION used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TURN OF EXPRESSION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A distinctive spoken or written expression

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

turn of expression; turn of phrase

Context example:

John's succinct turn of phrase persuaded her that it would not be a good idea

Hypernyms ("turn of expression" is a kind of...):

expressive style; style (a way of expressing something (in language or art or music etc.) that is characteristic of a particular person or group of people or period)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "turn of expression"):

conceit (a witty or ingenious turn of phrase)

 Context examples 

I sought in her countenance and features a likeness to Mr. Rochester, but found none: no trait, no turn of expression announced relationship.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Bankrupt, as he believed, alike in circumstances, in all other hope, and in honour, his sole reliance was upon the monster in the garb of man,—Mr. Micawber made a good deal of this, as a new turn of expression,—““who, by making himself necessary to him, had achieved his destruction. All this I undertake to show. Probably much more!””

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)