take a new turn

take a new turn
take a new turn
[for something] to begin a new course or direction. •

When I received the telegram with the exciting news, my life took a new turn.

I began taking the medicine at noon, and by evening the disease had begun to take a new turn. I was getting better!

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{v. phr.} To start a new course; decide upon a new direction. * /The company took a new turn under Jack's directorship./

Dictionary of American idioms. 2013.

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