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
Just about every big shot in earshot got done to a turn.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
The tea-kettle sung on the hearth, the toast was hot, and done to a turn, and the waiter was neither sleepy nor uncivil—all, again, very unlike a morning at a hotel in la belle France.
From Pencillings by the Way Written During Some Years of Residence and Travel in Europe by Willis, N. Parker
