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Adverb
wrong side out (not comparable)
- Of a garment, etc, having its inner or hidden side on the outside and vice versa.
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.
- (figuratively) Reversed, changed diametrically, by analogy with a garment that is wrong side out.
c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, :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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