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1864 Atlantic Monthly Aug. 229/2 Very likely this might be put the other way about, but then in books that side is usually left out.

1879 R. L. Stevenson Some Aspects of Burns in Cornhill Mag. Oct. 412 He [sc. Burns] was ‘constantly the victim of some fair enslaver’—at least, when it was not the other way about.

1894 ‘M. Rutherford’ Catharine Furze vi She..never could recollect whether the verb was conjugated, and the noun declined, or whether it was the other way round, to use one of her favourite expressions.

1895 S. Crane Red Badge of Courage xiv. 144 ‘I don't know about that,’ the youth replied. ‘What I seen over on th'right makes me think it was th'other way about.’

1914 Q. Rev. Apr. 382 Whilst with Hegel the Logic is the a priori framework of the whole philosophy, with Eucken it is secondary, adjusting itself to the life-process and not the other way about.

1925 New Yorker 28 Mar. 25/2 It is just as good the other way around.

1987 A. Giddens Social Theory & Mod. Sociol. xii. 275 Capitalism remains to preside over the burial of the working class, not the other way round.

2013 New Yorker 14 Jan. 51/1 The computer should be adapted to the individual and not the other way around.