wrong-side up

Example Sentences

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According to experts, one reason we struggle to define it is because we look at it from the wrong side up.

From Washington Post • Dec. 1, 2011

He dragged the heavy thing wrong side up.

From The New Yorker • Jun. 7, 2010

That Train Ear was holding the blues harp with the wrong side up.

From "Clayton Byrd Goes Underground" by Rita Williams-Garcia

I remember the chief, taking lessons from me but having only the cross to go by, d'y'see—the chief used always to hold the book wrong side up.

From Where the Pavement Ends by Russell, John

It seems a shame to go to the Boy Scout and Camp Fire Girls tests with our Safety buttons wrong side up, doesn't it?

From Sure Pop and the Safety Scouts by Bailey, Roy Rutherford