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Anonymous Posted 20 years ago
Vocabulary

"Turn the church around"

Hi,

Can someone please explain to me what the phrase "I'll turn this church around" means, and possibly where it originated from?

If you must know, the context is two people arguing in a church with a third one sick of it and saying "Stop it or I'll turn this church around."

Thanks,

Chen
  

Top answer

I don't think it qualifies as an idiom. It generally means to shift the direction of thinking, policy-making, church practices, etc. among the congregation members, the administration, or the clergy.

— Davkett

  • I don't think it qualifies as an idiom.
  • It generally means to shift the direction of thinking, policy-making, church practices, etc.
  • among the congregation members, the administration, or the clergy.
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I don't think it qualifies as an idiom. It generally means to shift the direction of thinking, policy-making, church practices, etc. among the congregation members, the administration, or the clergy.
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Hi Chen, I'm glad you provided the context or I would never have understood it. And I laughed when I did understand it.

It's a play on common expression used in families. Let's say you have a family on their way to a fun outing and they kids in the back are arguing or otherwise behaving badly. The father says "Okay, you kids, stop it or I'm turning this car around." This means, he'll go b
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Hi Geek,

Thanks a lot for the detailed explanation. It does make a lot of sense and finally I understand the joke. Emotion: smile
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Grammar Geek, great detective work here. Yes, the context was the key.
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Was it the caption for a cartoon? Maybe with kids sitting in a pew behind their parents?
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