Work & careers

turn around

improve a bad situation

To make a bad situation or negative trend become successful or positive again.

B2 common speech & writing

expression

Hear it in real life

How is the restaurant doing now?

Much better; the new owner has really turned it around.

Play the conversation

A clearer budget and better communication helped turn the project around.

The mistake everyone makes

Not: The new manager turned the company to a success.

Say: The new manager turned the company around.

Use "turn a company around" to say that a struggling organisation improved.

Build it

How it fits in a sentence.

turn around; turn something around; a situation turns around

Your turn: say it out loud

A clearer budget and better communication helped turn the project around.

Say it out loud two or three times, until it feels like yours.

turn around

improve a bad situation

“A clearer budget and better communication helped turn the project around.”

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