The phrase "turn something around" is correct and commonly used in written English.
It means to change something from a negative or unfavorable situation to a positive or favorable one. Example: The new CEO managed to turn the failing company around within just six months.
"You work very long hours," Mr. Kaplan said, "and often you're waiting for someone to turn something around".
No. Do you want to come here and turn something around that has not been great lately, where anybody would be excited if we can start winning?
It's about having that flexibility and being able to turn something around in a matter of weeks.
And so, literally, we'd get a phone call one week and need to turn something around in two weeks because of the change in the environment.
"I've seen other leaders not be that scrappy and take much longer and spend a lot more money trying to turn something around".
"In our sport, I have never met anyone as committed to turning something around," he added.
Quinn, keeping up his streak of great comebacks, replies, "Is that someone turning something around or is that a Stage 5 Delusional Getting Laid?" We all know how this works by now, of course: Carrie goes rogue, Quinn and Estes freak out, Saul buys her time and she winds up being proven right.
After the war, the Gestapo files relating to their case were handed to Fallada by Johannes Becher, a culture official in East Germany, who hoped this already successful and prolific writer could turn something worthwhile around quickly.
Still, for some reason, no matter how many times I decided it was time to turn around, something kept pushing me forward, a little voice from nowhere whispering, you will keep going.
Under those words was an icon resembling the spinning wheel of death — that cursor on Mac computers that looks a bit like a stylized sun and turns around and around when something is taking a long time to load.
He turned around and around, hoping for something that would tell him it was not as bad as his eyes first reported.
