Showing posts with label Turkey. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Turkey. Show all posts

Thursday, November 28, 2013

turkey, turnkey

Turkey or turkey means the large bird often eaten for Thanksgiving dinner--
We will be having turkey with cranberry sauce and pumpkin pie.
Grandpa usually carves the turkey.

Turkey also means a flop or failure, particularly in show business--
That show was really a turkey; no on liked it.

Turnkey or turnkey means ready to use or operate, as a business or commercial enterprise--
The business will be sold as a turnkey operation; production will continue as before.
This is a turnkey website; everything should be ready to use.

Turnkey once meant the person who had the keys to a prison--
They escaped by stealing the keys from the turnkey.

Now that you know that, you can say--
"The turkey farm will be sold as a turnkey business--just sign here and begin to run it."

Note--"Turkey" ( a proper noun, always capitalized ) is also the name of a country--
Part of Turkey is in Asia, and part of it is in Europe.