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Define Take Turns Meaning

Take Turns
(of two or more people) do something alternately or in succession.

We take turns on the night shift
By Jenn
Taking A Turn For The Melrose
A phrase which means "Things are so dramatic, it's starting to resemble Melrose Place."

References the 1990's drama filled soap opera, Melrose Place.

Person 1: Can you believe that he likes Lucas, who likes Desiree, who likes Jamie who likes Lucas?

Person 2: Yeah man. This shit is taking a turn for the Melrose.
By Gates
Take A Turn About The Room
An amusing term which appears so ubiquitously in various film adaptations of Jane Austin novels that it really should enter the public lexicon as a bit of tounge-in-cheek banter mocking the stilted, formal manner of speech common during the Regency period.

Chick: Dude, this party is great and all, but I've been sitting on this couch so long that my leg is falling asleep.
Dude: Shall we take a turn about the room?"
By Jillian
Take A Turn About The Room
An amusing term which appears so ubiquitously in various film adaptations of Jane Austen novels that it really should enter the public lexicon as a bit of tounge-in-cheek banter mocking the stilted, formal manner of speech common during the Regency period.

Chick: Dude, my legs are really shaky after winning that drinking game.
Dude: Shall we take a turn about the room?
By Essa
Taking An SC Turn
When a conversation takes a nasty or dark turn.

"I like babies, they're cute."
"They're even cuter when I'm eating their guts..."
"...well this conversation is taking an SC turn."
By Glynis
Taking An SC Turn
Using dark, sharp, or otherwise unpleasant statements or retorts in the course of a conversation.
Named after a person who commonly does the aforementioned.

Dan: "Oh I hate Jane."
Tony: "Why man? She seems fine to me."
Dan: "Nah mate, she keeps taking an SC turn each time I try to talk to her."
By Cody