Noun
turn of the year (plural turns of the years)
Approximately at the end of one year and the beginning of the next.
By the turn of the year you should receive your tax refund.
This is a terrible hour, but it is often that darkest point which precedes the rise of day; that turn of the year when the icy January wind carries over the waste at once the dirge of departing winter, and the prophecy of coming spring. Charlotte Brontë