In what was considered a dream final, the game turned into a close affair.

He turns death into a common, family affair, so to speak.

"A simple housing problem is being turned into an affair of state," he complained today.

Be careful, or you might turn this into an affair of honor.

Faith had to be turned into a private affair and made as invisible as possible.

The theological debate had turned into a political affair.

When the mass movement remains wholly in his keeping, he turns it into a mild affair.

They do, after a fashion, but it turns into a far more complex and tortuous affair than either had imagined.

Let us not therefore turn the discussion into an internal and national affair. It is about something much larger.

In the process, they turn a simple bowl of soup into a knife-and-fork affair.