wrong-side-out love

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  • adjective with the inside surface on the outside

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Examples

  • Fantasy cracks it down the middle, turns it wrong-side-out, dissolves it to invisibility, walks men through its walls, and fetches incredible circuses to town with sea-serpent, medusa, and chimera displacing zebra, ape, and armadillo.

    Ray Bradbury on Science Fiction and Fantasy 2007

  • Fantasy cracks it down the middle, turns it wrong-side-out, dissolves it to invisibility, walks men through its walls, and fetches incredible circuses to town with sea-serpent, medusa, and chimera displacing zebra, ape, and armadillo.

    May 2007 2007

  • Notice that it was the Republicans who blew a gasket and turned wrong-side-out in outrage when fellow Republican Craig was caught.

    The twenty buck solution 2007

  • And they had made no mistake in carrying out directions: they were wearing their shirts wrong-side-out, they carried no blade of any description, and each had three juniper berries carefully tucked in his pocket.

    The Road Leads On 2003

  • Austin cheered, pushing his head through his wrong-side-out T-shirt.

    Strategic Engagement Mann, Catherine 2003

  • She slipped out of her leather jacket and tossed it wrong-side-out over the sofa back, before sitting beside her husband.

    Leave the Grave Green Deborah Crombie 1995

  • I don't wear a shirt the fourth day by turning it wrong-side-out.

    The Ties That Bind...And Gag! Bombeck, Erma 1987

  • "Once I wore my PJs wrong-side-out and she called me Dr. Denton for a week."

    The Ties That Bind...And Gag! Bombeck, Erma 1987

  • The spring was backward that year, and on its first evening of real softness and beauty the houses of Littleton seemed turned wrong-side-out, like a stocking-bag, upon the streets.

    Joyce's Investments A Story for Girls Fannie E. Newberry

  • Jus 'let me turn it wrong-side-out to show you how big it is.

    Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Georgia Narratives, Part 2 Work Projects Administration

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