| 单词 | wrong side out |
| 释义 | > as lemmas(the) wrong side out (†outwards) b. In the adverbial phr. (the) wrong side out (†outwards), wrong side before. In later use frequently without article. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > inversion > inverted [phrase] > the wrong way round hind and forth13.. (the) wrong side out (outwards)1600 (the) wrong way1693 1600 W. Shakespeare Much Ado about Nothing iii. i. 68 So turnes she euery man the wrong side out . View more context for this quotation a1616 W. Shakespeare Othello (1622) ii. iii. 47 My sicke foole Roderigo, Whom loue has turn'd almost the wrong side outward. a1716 R. South 12 Serm. (1717) V. 100 He will find, that if ever another Turn befals the Nation, it will be the Wrongside outwards, the Lowest Uppermost. 1859 H. Kingsley Recoll. G. Hamlyn xxxiv His hat was on wrong-side before. 1883 ‘M. Twain’ Life on Mississippi liv. 536 We all struggled frantically into our clothes,..getting them wrong-side-out and upside-down, as a rule. 1888 ‘J. S. Winter’ Bootle's Children ix. 66 Trying hard to twist into its proper place a finger of the glove which would go on wrong side out. < as lemmas |
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