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Meaning of turn the scale | Babel Free

Verb CEFR C1

Definitions

To decide or determine a balanced situation.

idiomatic

Examples

“Perhaps Charles Strickland's power and originality would scarcely have sufficed to turn the scale if the remarkable mythopoeic faculty of mankind had not brushed aside with impatience a story which disappointed all its craving for the extraordinary.”

CEFR level

C1

Advanced
This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.

See also

turn the screw turn the table turn the tables turn the tide turn the trick turn to