turn a place inside out
informalto search every part of a place very carefully:
I've turned the house inside out but I still can't find my keys.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Searching
- a needle in a haystack idiom
- beachcomber
- bounty hunter
- burrow
- cast around
- dig
- drag
- nose
- once-over
- pick
- pick through sth
- poke
- poke around
- seek
- strip search
- trail
- turn sth upside down idiom
- wanted
- wild-goose chase
- witch hunt
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