"on foreign turf" is a correct phrase in written English.
It means being in a place or environment that is unfamiliar or outside of one's own country. It can be used in a variety of contexts, such as: - The team struggled to adjust to playing on foreign turf, but they ultimately won the match. - As a foreign correspondent, I am accustomed to reporting on events on foreign turf. - The company faced many challenges when expanding into new markets and operating on foreign turf. Example: After years of living in the city, moving to a small town in the countryside felt like being on foreign turf to me. Everything from the scenery to the local customs seemed unfamiliar and took some getting used to.
Unlike "South Pacific," which depicts American service people on foreign turf, "Show Boat" is based on home soil and addresses the nation's black-white color divide.
Motivated by little more than fear, this move inspired so much ill-will that the scientific community gathered for its big international AIDS meeting on foreign turf for more than two decades.
The only time we see Dr. Weston on foreign turf is on Friday, when he visits his own therapist, Gina (Dianne Wiest) and tries to sort out his own tangled feelings.
While Amos often finds himself on foreign turf ("The Upper Peninsula is a great place to visit, but I don't want to die there") and out of his social depth (the German cars in Grosse Pointe driveways make him mad), his comfort zone is the industrial heart of his city and the battered working-class neighborhoods that feed it the souls it needs to keep on pumping.
There are substantial risks for Boeing in striking a deal on foreign turf.
But the crazy thing is that even with the uncertainties caused by covering this massive event on foreign turf, the staff rolled through beaming its coverage and made it apparent what a well-oiled machine this production was.
The CIA resisted letting the military infringe on its foreign turf.
Instead, we had a replay of last fall's Subway Series, with Derek Jeter and Luis Sojo scampering and the Mets stumbling on the basepaths to the accompaniment of a chorus of Yankee fans celebrating the 5-4 victony on supposedly foreign turf.
Since emerging giants both circumvent institutional voids and tailor their strategies to local markets better than multinational companies do, they initially take on foreign competitors by capitalizing on their ability to navigate their home turf.
Plus, we're putting them into our yeast strain, which is foreign turf.
After all, the human organism is home territory for Facebook and utterly foreign turf for Google's algorithmic machine.
