stand sth on its head
to cause something such as an established belief to be doubted, especially because of new information or discoveries:
New data has stood the traditional explanation of the island's origin on its head.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Denying & contradicting
- abnegate
- answer
- answer (sb) back
- change your tune idiom
- contradiction
- debunk
- defensive
- denial
- deny
- disagree
- Dutchman
- fly
- hell
- I'm a Dutchman idiom
- nonsense
- oxymoron
- rebut
- stand
- talk
- the hell sb is/does, etc. idiom
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