wrong-side up

He squints, grimaces, stoops and looks at his canvas wrong-side up.

Does it pay to be a constitutional monarch turned wrong-side up?”

The eighteenth-century notion that men in a state of nature were all equal is wrong-side up.

The hotel had not been furnished with an eye to contests of chivalry, but chairs, turned wrong-side up and covered with table-cloths, made richly caparisoned steeds; and Patricia's imagination easily supplied the riders.

They may have come out wrong-side up, but none the worse for that.