wrong side out

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Columnist Drew Pearson, whose inside stories sometimes have the facts wrong side out, had a sizzling inside story early this month for his readers in 600 papers.

From Time Magazine Archive

I turned Celia’s shawl right side out, then wrong side out.

From "Nory Ryan’s Song" by Patricia Reilly Giff

In taking off your gloves, pull them from the top downwards, so that they are wrong side out when they come off.

From Harper's Round Table, May 28, 1895 by Various

It is a thing of great wonder that in everything they make in which there is a right and wrong side, they naturally make it wrong side out.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 - Volume 40 of 55 1690-1691 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century by Blair, Emma Helen

Fold the cloth, wrong side out, with the woof and through the center, and baste the edges together.

From Handicraft for Girls A Tentative Course in Needlework, Basketry, Designing, Paper and Cardboard Construction, Textile Fibers and Fabrics and Home Decoration and Care by McGlauflin, Idabelle