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Jimmy Hung
2019-10-01 01:10
Turn on phrasal verb slang
(turn something on; turn on something) to make something (an equipment, supply of water, electricity, gas...) begin functioning by pressing a button, moving a switch, or turning a tap.
Every morning, I wake up, turn on my my laptop and check my schedule.
You need to press the button three times to turn the light on.
(turn on someone) to abruptly become hostile to someone, assault someone physically or verbally.
It's dangerous. The dog is turning on a boy.
if a situation, idea, event, issue, or fact... "turns on something", it revolves around and depends mostly on that thing.
The tale turns on the journey to happiness of a poor girl.
Last-week workshop turned on the procrastination of nowadays young generation.
[(turn someone on) or (turn someone on to something)] to hold the attention of someone or interest someone in something.
Romantic novels just don't turn me on.
Mom is the person who turned me on to playing piano.
(turn someone on) to cause someone to feel sexually attracted or sexually interested.
Men in suits really turns Jane on.
(turn on something) to deliberately use one's quality to achieve something.
What he can do is just turning on his charm in parties to attract pretty girls.
If someone "turns on", he/she intoxicates himself/herself with drugs or other substances.
Those guys have interest in turning on.
The verb "turn" should be conjugated according to its tense.
The first meaning dates from the first half of the 1800s. The third meaning is first recorded in 1661. The fourth meaning dates from c.1900. The fifth meaning dates from the second half of the 1900s. The sixth meaning dates from the late 1800s. The seventh meaning is slang, dating from the mid-1900s.
Do you see anything wrong?
People tend to like forbidden or illegal things just because they are forbidden or illegal.
He must have believed that stolen fruit is the sweetest, and he, therefore, cheated on his partner.
