World Cup Phrase of the Day: (to) Turn on the style

Every day during the World Cup, the languagecaster team explain a football phrase or cliché connected to this summer’s tournament – today we look at ‘turn on the style‘. Click on the link below to hear the word or phrase and you can also read the transcript. You can find many more examples by going to our football phrase page here football clichés here and our huge football glossary here.

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Today’s World Cup Phrase is ‘to turn on the style‘. Style in this phrase is from the adjective ‘stylish‘, meaning sophisticated, cool, classy – basically very good. To turn on, means to start, as in to turn on the tap (for water) or to turn on the light. So, to turn on the style means to put on a classy performance, usually a game with good passing, exciting attacking play and effective defending. Last night, Brazil turned on the style against Ivory Coast beating the African side 3-1 to qualify for the next round and to kick start their campaign. Tonight, can Spain turn on the style against Honduras when the two sides meet in the second round of games in Group H?

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