good turn

English

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Noun

good turn (plural good turns)

1. (idiomatic) A good deed; a thoughtful or selfless act.

   Antonyms: bad turn, evil turn, ill turn

   One good turn deserves another.

   • 1895, Marie Corelli, The Sorrows of Satan: or The Strange Experience of One Geoffrey Tempest, Millionaire […], 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: J[oshua] B[allinger] Lippincott Company, published 1896, →OCLC, page 14:

     I am doing you a good turn this year by sending you a friend, […]

Translations

good deed

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 恩惠 (zh) (ēnhuì), 好意 (zh) (hǎoyì), 善行 (zh) (shànxíng)

• Finnish: palvelus (fi), hyvä teko
• French: bonne action (fr) f
• Polish: przysługa (pl) f, dobry uczynek m
• Russian: добрая услу́га (dobraja uslúga)