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单词 turn sth upside down
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turn sth upside down

to search everywhere for something, sometimes leaving a place very untidy:

I turned the apartment upside down but I couldn't find the letter.

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 a place inside out idiom
  • wanted
  • wild-goose chase
  • witch hunt

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turn (sth) upside down

to (cause something to) change completely and in a bad way:

Another poor harvest could turn the country's economy upside down.
Their lives were turned upside down when their son was arrested.

Thesaurus: synonyms and related words

Upsetting and destabilizing

  • bring
  • bring sb down
  • delegitimize
  • destabilize
  • dislocate
  • disrupt
  • knock/throw sb for a loop idiom
  • loop
  • make waves idiom
  • put the skids under sth idiom
  • rock
  • rock the boat idiom
  • scupper
  • stir
  • undercut
  • undermine
  • upset
  • upside down
  • wave

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