wrong side out
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wrong side out
adverb the wrong side out · wrong side before · wrongside out · wrong-side out · wrong-side-out
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Of a garment, etc, having its inner or hidden side on the outside and vice versa.
We all struggled frantically into our clothes, […] getting them wrong-side-out and upside-down, as a rule.
Similar: inside out
- Reversed, changed diametrically, by analogy with a garment that is wrong side out. When I inform'd him, then he call'd me sot, And told me I had turn'd the wrong side out.
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