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

It was pitiful enough, so that men who had their seats began to read advertisements and other things with their papers wrong side up, in order to seem thoroughly engrossed in their business.

From A Guest at the Ludlow and Other Stories by Edgar Wilson

"Then, madame, there was in its entrails that strange displacement of the liver which we had already observed in the first two—it was wrong side up!"

From Marguerite de Valois by Dumas père, Alexandre