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flip the script en · VERB

Pronunciation

Meanings

  1. (Canada, US, informal) To reverse a situation, especially by doing something unexpected.
    • I know there are exceptions, and I’m not trying to flip the script and reveal the reactionary face of Hollywood, though it’s true that in the years of the Production Code (from the mid-’30s until the late ’60s), Hollywood upheld a fairly conservative vision of American life. 2022 June 2, A. O. Scott, “Are the Movies Liberal?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
    • Some people walk with a panther or strike a buffalo stance that makes you wanna dance. Other people flip the script on the day of the jackal that'll make you cackle. 2003, Deborah Gregory, The Cheetah Girls: Livin' Large!, page 405:
    • We need to flip the script and start showing that same level of compassion and love toward each other, and perhaps we will then gain respect and control over our communities. 2010, Inkwell, Children in the Belly of the Beast: Breeding Ground for Social Pathology, page 148:
    • But sometimes she'd flip the script and come out with some tight shit on, turning that magnetic strength up to full power. 2008, Brian Peterson, Move Over, Girl: A Novel, page 63:
    • And we're not talking about me. We're talking about you. What's with you Kings? You're always trying to flip the script on me. 2011, Adrianne Byrd, King's Promise, page 94:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
flips the script Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
flipping the script Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
flipped the script Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
flipped the script Tense=Past lexicographic

Synonyms

change the game · turn the tables