turn turtle
Example Sentences
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I don't know, but perhaps the minute I get some wind in the sail the whole outfit will turn turtle.
From The Battleship Boys' First Step Upward or, Winning Their Grades as Petty Officers by Frank Gee Patchin
If he deviated a hair's breadth at that speed he'd turn turtle.
From El Diablo by Dan Sayre Groesbeck
We'll sink or turn turtle again and again!
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 105, September 9, 1893 by Various
The schooner heeled until the lad was sure that she was going to turn turtle.
From The Battleship Boys' First Step Upward or, Winning Their Grades as Petty Officers by Frank Gee Patchin
The same terrific force gave the steamer a lurch, and she threatened to turn turtle.
From The Boys of the Wireless by Frank V. Webster
