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Tables are turned.
When the tables are turned, the situation has changed giving the advantage to the party who had previously been at a disadvantage.
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Another table is overturned, a small puddle of shattered glass beside it, as if there'd been a bar fight, not a military invasion.
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To the left was a toppled bookcase, to the right a downed bureau full of tools and hardware, and between them the dinner table was overturned.
After the savory course, the tables were overturned".
Tables were overturned, something caught fire, an awning, and then everything went up in flames".
Tables were overturned or moved to the room's periphery to create a "lion's pit" for the battle.
Everything in an instant is overturned.
In less than two years, the landscape has changed altogether and the tables have been overturned and the two sides are in direct conflict.
In the hands of the police, non-lethal weapons are meant to resolve a crisis (say, a Hells Angel in a bar who has broken a chair over someone's head and is overturning tables, and who, when asked to leave, draws a knife) without anyone getting badly hurt or being killed.
Unlike Mrs. Titterton, Mrs. Case had been able to put up a bitter struggle for life in which tables and chairs were overturned.
He challenged the comfortable and overturned tables that needed to be overturned.
On the ground were overturned tables.
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