English Pronunciation Audio (General Australian):(file) Noun turn of events (plural turns of events) (idiomatic) A deviation from the expected course of events. Translations deviation from the expected Arabic: please add this translation if you can Chinese: Mandarin: 事件的發展, 事件的发展 (shìjiàn de fāzhǎn), 形勢的變化, 形势的变化 (xíngshì de biànhuà) Finnish: poikkeama (fi), käänne (fi) French: concours de circonstances (fr) m German: Ereigniswende f Hungarian: helyzet alakulása Italian: ironia della sorte Japanese: please add this translation if you can Korean: 우디르급 태세변환 (udireugeup taesebyeonhwan) Polish: obrót sprawy m Portuguese: reviravolta f Russian: поворо́т собы́тий m (povorót sobýtij) Spanish: giro de los acontecimientos m Swedish: vändning (sv) c, händelseutveckling c Wikiwand - on Seamless Wikipedia browsing. On steroids.