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

Elizabeth and Elsa may wear the same mantle, right side out in one r�le and wrong side out in the other.

From Confessions of an Opera Singer by Howard, Kathleen

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

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