turn the tide

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turn the tide (third-person singular simple present turns the tide, present participle turning the tide, simple past and past participle turned the tide)

(idiomatic) To undergo a change or reversal of a general trend.
- 1962 February, “No Talent on the Railways?”, in Modern Railways, page 74:
  The general who turned the tide at Alamein was not, prior to his arrival in the Middle East, one of the very "top brass"; but he was a soldier, not a detergent manufacturer.
- 2008 March 21, Owen Bowcott, “The man who captured the human cost of conflict”, in The Guardian:
  Images captured by the photojournalist Philip Jones Griffiths in Vietnam helped turn the tide of public opinion against the war.

to make a change