done to a turn
Example Sentences
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Vegetables generally could have spent a bit longer over the coals — the giant broccoli trees in particular were more like singed crudité — but just about everything else was done to a turn.
From Seattle Times • Sep. 29, 2016
For the audience the result looks like naturalness done to a turn.
From Time Magazine Archive
Just about every big shot in earshot got done to a turn.
From Time Magazine Archive
Meaty, romantic music, done to a turn and served with the proper helping of gravy, in one of the finest of Brahms recordings.
From Time Magazine Archive
The whole place was pervaded by an odour indescribably pleasing to my infantile nostrils, and compact of suggestions of heat acting upon clean print gowns, tea-cakes done to a turn, scrubbed wood, and hot soap-suds.
From The Record of Nicholas Freydon An Autobiography by Dawson, A. J. (Alec John)
