wrong side out
English
Alternative forms
- the wrong side out
- wrong side before
- wrongside out, wrong-side out, wrong-side-out
Adverb
wrong side out (not comparable)
- Of a garment, etc, having its inner or hidden side on the outside and vice versa.
- 1883, Mark Twain, Life on the Mississippi:
- We all struggled frantically into our clothes, […] getting them wrong-side-out and upside-down, as a rule.
- 1970, Donald Harington, Lightning Bug:
- She began to remove her sweaty clothes, but noticed for the first time that she had her chambray shirt on wrongside out.
- 1883, Mark Twain, Life on the Mississippi:
- (figuratively) Reversed, changed diametrically, by analogy with a garment that is wrong side out.
- 1605, William Shakespeare, King Lear, Act IV, Scene II:
- When I inform'd him, then he call'd me sot, And told me I had turn'd the wrong side out.
- 1605, William Shakespeare, King Lear, Act IV, Scene II:
Synonyms
- (having its inner side on the outside): inside out
- (reversed, changed diametrically): See also Thesaurus:vice versa
See also
- back to front
- upside down
- wrong way round
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