What Dar La Vuelta a La Tortilla Means in Spanish

Dar la vuelta a la tortilla is one of the several Spanish idiomatic expression with food and literally it can be translated as “to turn the omelette around“.

Its meaning is “to turn a situation around” and normally it is used when a negative situation is changed in a positive one, so it is similar to the English expression “to turn the tables“.

Let’s see how to use it with some examples:

Spanish	English
Necesitamos dar la vuelta a la tortilla para ganar.	We need to turn the tables to win.
Su intención será dar la vuelta a la tortilla, atacar en lugar de defender.	They want to turn the situation around and attack instead of defending.
Creo que hemos dado la vuelta a la tortilla en algunos aspectos.	I think we’ve been able to overturn that in some respects.

 

Do you know any other expression with a similar meaning?