turn the tables
turn the tide

It's up to you to turn the tide of the war.

The leaders of this effort turned the tide and then ran the party for the next 15 years.

"The only way it could happen is, you know, people turn the tide and talk about things that happened in the past."

He knew that would be enough to turn the tide.

Time, care and attention had turned the tide for him.

Most of the time I believe we will turn the tide.

But a second paper, published in 1989, began to turn the tide.

But that probably won't be enough to turn the tide.

Everybody wants to be the one to turn the tide.

Can he find a way to turn the tide of the battle around?