0 If a better situation or an opportunity to do something turns up, it happens or becomes available unexpectedly or in a way that was not planned: --
1 If something that you have been looking for turns up, you find it unexpectedly: --
The missing letter eventually turned up inside a book.
2 a piece of material at the bottom of a trouser leg that is folded back: --
trouser turn-ups
3 something that happens in an unexpected way or in a way that was not planned --
That might be a turn-up for the book.
I just wish that we had one in central government—that would be a turn-up for the book.
We need more flexibility so that operators can develop turn-up-and-go services without having contracts in place.
I believe that the future is bright, that the turn-up will come.
That is a turn-up for the book, and the articles are well worth reading.
Well, that will certainly be a turn-up for the book.
In revenue terms there has been a turn-up, allowing for the effects of inflation.
It is rather a turn-up for the books.
