left turn
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- noun
- /lɛft tɜrn/
- At the next intersection, make a left turn to get onto Main Street.
- make a left turn
- probability of a left turn
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Watch on YouTubethe car Yeats over into a left turn lane with no signaling, no indication.
- the car Yeats over into a left turn lane with no signaling, no indication.
- I immediately feel like the person that's making this left turn because I'm going straight is doing it on purpose, right?
- So if I go to make a left turn over here, what I found the best thing to do is palm this yoke right here.
- So when I made the left turn, it was the grass was a little.
Examples
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Make a sharp left turn onto this narrow winding mountain road.
Academic text (2001) -
Lula makes a wide left turn onto Jeff Davis Highway.
Fiction book (1990) -
But if there was a person there, we were making a left turn going three Lane St.
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We are making a left turn.
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At the next intersection, make a left turn.
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The participants were instructed to make left turns when they felt it was safe to do so.
Academic text (2001) -
One more block, one more left turn, and we're back on Maple Avenue.
Fiction book (1997) -
Make a left turn.
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All right, now, everybody keep your eyes peeled, because we've got to make a left turn soon.
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Breedan puts on the left turn signal and waits for the sign.
Fiction book (1995)
Synonyms
Surface Forms
Morphology
The political sense 'a shift toward left-wing policies' is directly derivable by combining 'left' (left-wing) with 'turn' (a change or shift). This spatial-to-political mapping is a regular, cross-linguistic metaphor, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents would likely infer the MWE's meaning.
Etymology
The noun left turn comes from the simple picture of steering or walking and making a movement to the left: you make a turn so your body or car faces the left side. So it means 'an act of turning toward the left'.