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The term "Doing a 180\Doing a U-turn" means:

  1. In maths and angles-
    1. 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).
  2. On the roads-
    1. 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.
  3. Human behavior-
    1. changing your mind
    2. backing out
    3. coming around
    4. doing an about-face
    5. doing an about-turn
    6. to eat your words
    7. going back on having second thoughts
    8. pulling out
    9. about-facing
    10. rethinking
    11. backing down
    12. backing off
    13. going into reverse
    14. changing your mind
    15. backing out
    16. coming around
  4. Ecanomics-
    1. 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.
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