Their relationship turned the standard notion of marriage on its head. =???
2006-06-19 20:30:24 · 4 answers · asked by omazzri 1 in Education & Reference ➔ Words & Wordplay
Maybe,=Their relationship changed the standard notion of marriage. RIGHT?
2006-06-19 20:31:11 · update #1
Your guess is right.
The sentence "Their relationship turned the standard notion of marriage on its head." means that the relationship of the concerned people reversed the standard understanding of what marriage means. In other words, their relationship was an example of what a marriage is not understood or meant to be.
2006-06-19 22:11:51 · answer #1 · answered by Rakesh A 4 · 4⤊ 2⤋
According to the Cambridge's idiom dictionary, to turn something on its head means "to make an idea or belief the opposite of what it was before."
So in your sentence, their relationship made the notion of marriage into "an idea or belief the opposite of what it was before".
2006-06-20 06:39:15 · answer #2 · answered by d-train 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes, although you could add the word "radically", as in: "Their relationship radically changed the standard notion of marriage.", since "standing on its head" implies diametrical opposition to convention (the exact opposite).
2006-06-20 09:35:25 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Is this an off-shoot of some other question string? I am not sure about the question you are asking.
2006-06-20 04:15:21 · answer #4 · answered by G. Rex 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋