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turn into

On-Yomi: セイ、ジョウ — Kun-Yomi: な.る、な.す、-な.す

Elements:

turn into, parade, sword, dagger

Heisig story:

Let the phrase "turn into" suggest some sort of a magical change. What happens here is that the parade marching down main street turns into a dagger-throwing bout between competing bands. Note how only one stroke has to be added to make the change.

Koohii stories:

1) [Ninjasha] 19-2-2008(248): It only takes a single stroke of a dagger for a parade to TURN INTO a bloodbath.

2) [usis35] 4-11-2007(26): The gay parade suddenly TURNED INTO a DAGGER throwing fight.

3) [jonobugs] 26-6-2008(15): The peaceful protest parade turned into an ugly riot when some idiot pulled out a knife and started to threaten the police.

4) [stephan] 3-10-2008(12): Let us beat swords into plowshares and turn daggers into scythes. (see my story for overgrown (#360 茂)).

5) [colonel32] 28-1-2007(8): The glorious socialist parade turns into a knife fight between Fidel and Raul Castro after they both give 3-hour speeches.

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