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View definitions for turn turtle

turn turtle

verb as in turn over

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Example Sentences

“You look like a turned turtle!” she hooted.

“Everything turned turtle within a few hours,” he said.

There are baths too deep to get out of, so you have to turn turtle and push yourself up and out.

From BBC

The Recreation turned turtle, casting some passengers into the water.

Before the world economy turned turtle in 2008, the European Union presented an attractive face to the world.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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