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Swing about   /swɪŋ əbˈaʊt/   Listen
Swing about

verb
1.
Turn abruptly and face the other way, either physically or metaphorically.  Synonyms: swing around, turn around.  "My conscience told me to turn around before I made a mistake"






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"Swing about" Quotes from Famous Books



... grey-haired preacher had opened the Bible in his hand and was climbing the stone base of the lamp-post when a handful of filth struck the back of the book and bespattered his face. I saw Nat whip out his sword and swing about angrily in the direction of the shot, while the two women laid hands on either arm to check him; and at the same moment my father spoke ...
— Sir John Constantine • Prosper Paleologus Constantine

... this giant's system includes groups and clusters of planets, many with three times the mass of Jupiter, five and six together, each a different colour, revolving about a common centre, while they swing about their primary. Their numerous moons have satellites encircling them, with orbits in some cases at right angles to the plane of the ecliptic, so that they shine perpendicularly on what correspond ...
— A Journey in Other Worlds • J. J. Astor



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