Meaning of wrong side out | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Of a garment, etc, having its inner or hidden side on the outside and vice versa.
   not-comparable
2. Reversed, changed diametrically, by analogy with a garment that is wrong side out.
   figuratively, not-comparable

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Examples

“We all struggled frantically into our clothes, […] getting them wrong-side-out and upside-down, as a rule.”

“She began to remove her sweaty clothes, but noticed for the first time that she had her chambray shirt on wrongside out.”

“When I inform'd him, then he call'd me sot, And told me I had turn'd the wrong side out.”

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