КУДА НИ НИ ПОВОРОТИТЕ

• КАК (КУДА) НИ ПОВЕРНИ(ТЕ) (НИ ПОВОРОТИ(ТЕ) obsoles) coll

[subord clause; these forms only; fixed WO]

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⇒ no matter which assumption you make or which approach you take:

- whichever way you look at it;

- no matter how (which way) you look at it.

     ♦ Словом, куда ни повороти, [Чичиков] был очень порядочный человек (Гоголь 3). In short, whichever way you looked at it, he [Chichikov] was a man of utmost respectability and honesty (3a).