done to a turn

Example Sentences

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Vegetables generally could have spent a bit longer over the coals — the giant broccoli trees in particular were more like singed crudité — but just about everything else was done to a turn.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 29, 2016

Meaty, romantic music, done to a turn and served with the proper helping of gravy, in one of the finest of Brahms recordings.

From Time Magazine Archive

For the audience the result looks like naturalness done to a turn.

From Time Magazine Archive

Offenbach's witty and brilliant opera is done to a turn, even to the sound of wine gurgling from a bottle.

From Time Magazine Archive

They were done to a turn by that tune and the fire had died down to a bed of red embers.

From A House Party with the Tucker Twins by Speed, Nell