The term "Doing a 180\Doing a U-turn" means:
- In maths and angles-
- Doing 180 degrees indicates a half circle (or think of it as a half turn, where you are standing in the opposite direction as you were from the start).
- On the roads-
- A U-turning is turning your car 180 degrees onto a street that goes in the opposite direction. A vehicle going in the reverse direction via a turn, so the driver makes U-turns to go back in the direction they came.
- Human behavior-
- changing your mind
- backing out
- coming around
- doing an about-face
- doing an about-turn
- to eat your words
- going back on having second thoughts
- pulling out
- about-facing
- rethinking
- backing down
- backing off
- going into reverse
- changing your mind
- backing out
- coming around
- Ecanomics-
- Exiting long term spiraling debt and making a substantial medium or long term profit.
- Also see: Doing a 360 and October 19th, 2019, Brexit Treaty vote.
- Sources: https://grammarpartyblog.com/2012/12/03/180-360-where-are-we-again/, https://www.thesaurus.com/browse/doing%20a%20u%20turn, https://driving-tests.org/beginner-drivers/how-to-make-a-u-turn/, https://www.idrivesafely.com/driving-resources/how-to/u-turn/, https://www.thesaurus.com/browse/doing%20a%20u%20turn, https://www.wordhippo.com/what-is/another-word-for/doing_a_U-turn.html and https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AwrEze1cKAZdLyMAYgpXNyoA;_ylu=X3oDMTEycWNwb3F0BGNvbG8DYmYxBHBvcwM1BHZ0aWQDQjI5NDRfMQRzZWMDc3I-?qid=20070805105955AAW4KWz.