wrong-side up

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They may have come out wrong-side up, but none the worse for that.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 99, September 6, 1890 by Various

The eighteenth-century notion that men in a state of nature were all equal is wrong-side up.

From Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals by Sumner, William Graham

He squints, grimaces, stoops and looks at his canvas wrong-side up.

From Immortal Youth A Study in the Will to Create by Price, Lucien

The hotel had not been furnished with an eye to contests of chivalry, but chairs, turned wrong-side up and covered with table-cloths, made richly caparisoned steeds; and Patricia's imagination easily supplied the riders.

From The Lever A Novel by Orcutt, William Dana