The phrase "a poor turn" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a situation or action that is unfavorable or disappointing, often in the context of a decision or outcome.
Example: "The company's decision to cut benefits was a poor turn for employee morale."
Alternatives: "a bad turn" or "an unfortunate turn".
While the 2012 campaign's idea of a sexist outrage was a poor turn of phrase hinting at tokenism and condescension, 2016 has seen the nominee of a major party exposed as a perpetrator of sexual assault.
"There was a poor finish, a poor turn and a poor start, but that gives us something to work on.
Often the crew would actually sell in the bodega, where officials were able to purchase drugs in the back of the store (and, in a poor turn for the owner, found the bodega selling untaxed cigarettes).
Yet the result is anything but a foregone conclusion given that in 2001 the Irish, albeit on a poor turn-out, rejected the Nice treaty (they later changed their minds).
Ken Wharfe, a former royal protection police officer, said it was "old, heavy, has a poor turning circle and has no protective qualities".
With that, the EDL completed another exercise in utter futility with a poor turn-out.
And in that, at least, the working poor turn out to be just like everyone else.
It's the sad story of the oldest son in a poor family turning a gun on the violent man who has been abusing their mother, and it isn't over yet.
The new day found me at the portable typewriter that Domingo Manuel Vega had lent me, trying to write something that would resemble Kafka's tale of a poor bureaucrat turned into an enormous cockroach.
But with young players growing bigger and faster every year, and with so much money to be won instantly when a prodigy from a poor family turns pro, the temptation to create model athletes -- to breed them like fruit flies for special traits -- no longer seems like science fiction.
A poor prodigy turned hydraulics engineer (cue E-40's "Poor Man's Hydraulics"), Hu now oversees $1.9T (that's T for trillion) in reserves.
