for a change en · ADP
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(idiomatic) As a departure from the usual (whether deliberate or not).
"I've supported her for seventeen years. Why shouldn't she support herself for a change?"
1919, W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence:He had had a hard time in the City, so he explained. Harris, who is callous in his nature, and not prone to pity, said: "Ah! and now you are going to have a hard time on the river for a change; change is good for everyone. Out you get!"
1889, Jerome K. Jerome, chapter 9, in Three Men in a Boat […] :1931, Robert E. Howard, The TNT Punch (alternate titles: The Waterfront Law, and The Waterfront Wallop), "... But I ain't all softness and mush--feel this here for a change!" And I closed the Kid's eye with a smashing left hander.
If you've had "nuff" of "the blood of the lamb," Then join in the grand Industrial band; If, for a change, you would have eggs and ham, Then come! Do your share, like a man.
1913, Joe Hill, There Is Power in a Union:1993 February 17, Bill Clinton, speech, First State of the Union Address, I'd like to use that Superfund to clean up pollution for a change and not just pay lawyers.
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Translations (14)
fr pour changer (as a departure from the usual) · fi vaihteeksi (as a departure from the usual) · su sinarieun (as a departure from the usual) · pl dla odmiany (as a departure from the usual) · de zur Abwechslung (as a departure from the usual) · sv för omväxlings skull (as a departure from the usual) · id tumben (as a departure from the usual) · id sekali-sekali (as a departure from the usual) · pl na odmianę (as a departure from the usual) · ru для разнообра́зия (as a departure from the usual) · hu a változatosság kedvéért (as a departure from the usual) · fi vaihtelun vuoksi (as a departure from the usual) · es para variar (as a departure from the usual) · pt para variar (as a departure from the usual)