bad turn

From what the police could determine, Miller had been a young lawyer of considerable promise when her life took a bad turn.

That was six weeks ago and the fate of at least one of these generals was about to take a bad turn.

For reasons that are for only her family to know—if indeed even they do—Mary Kennedy took a bad turn.

Did they really do you such a bad turn seeing to it that you were sent out here to my place?

Then Thorarin held his peace, and thought the matter had taken a bad turn.

She has recently died, and her memory and the thought that his son might be alive and here, gave him a bad turn.

I hoped to have had a Christmas story for some one, but am forbidden to write for six months, after a bad turn of vertigo.

None of them wanted him; he could see that easily enough, and he had done Cousin Dick a bad turn.