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table-turning en · NOUN

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) The practice, at a séance, of the participants sitting around a table with their hands upon it, waiting for it to rotate and spell out communications from spirits.
2. (countable, idiomatic, uncountable) The act of turning the tables; a reversal or revenge.
   • Fantasies of table-turning and revenge seem to be commonplace in history; but war gives extra space for their enactment, and widespread weaponry also makes them more likely to be lethal […] 2005, David Keen, Conflict & Collusion in Sierra Leone, page 62:

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Synonyms

table-tipping