upside down

alternative downside up · alternative upside-down · alternative upsidedown · alternative up so down

1. not comparableInverted, so that the top is now at the bottom.

   The Union flag was flying upside down, a sign of danger.

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   His hands were busy with his garments all this time: turning them inside out, putting them on upside down, tearing them, mislaying them, making them parties to every kind of extravagance.

   1843 December 19, Charles Dickens, “Stave Five. The End of It.”, in A Christmas Carol. […], London: Chapman & Hall, […], →OCLC, page 153

   For, suddenly, I saw you there / And through foggy London town / The sun was shining upside down!

   1937, “A Foggy Day (In London Town)”, Ira Gershwin (lyrics), George Gershwin (music)

   Synonyms: bottom-upwards, topsy-turvy · Antonyms: right side up

2. not comparableIn great disorder.

   The thief had turned the room upside down.

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   Peaſe and beanes are as danke here as a dog and that is the next way to giue poore iades the bots: this houſe is turned vpſide downe ſince Robin Oſtler died.

   c. 1597 (date written), [William Shakespeare], The History of Henrie the Fourth; […], quarto edition, London: […] P[eter] S[hort] for Andrew Wise, […], published 1598, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i], signature C2, recto

alternative downside up · alternative upside-down · alternative upsidedown · alternative up so down

1. not comparableInverted; turned so that the top is at the bottom.

   The pattern resembled an upside down letter W.

2. not comparableIn great disorder.

   The wenches and the men have been on the streets all day, and the kitchen is upside down. You never saw the like.

   1901, Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr, The lion's whelp: a story of Cromwell's time, page 248

3. not comparablebusinessOwing more money for something than it is worth; having negative equity.

   He's upside down on his mortgage.

   Synonyms: underwater

4. humorousnot comparableAustralian.

alternative downside up · alternative upside-down · alternative upsidedown · alternative up so down

1. Alternative letter-case form of Upside Down.

   It is in the upside down where we can find many opportunities to grow and learn.

   2022 September 28, Scott R. Sheehan, “The President’s Prose: Inside, Outside, Upside Down”, in Music Educators Journal, volume 109, number 1, →DOI, →ISSN, pages 7–10

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   it asks courts to step into the reality educators face: the reality of teaching in the upside down.

   2023 January 28, Tess Bissell, “Teaching in the Upside Down: What Anti–Critical Race Theory Laws Tell Us About the First Amendment”, in Stanford Law Review, volume 75, archived from the original on 21 Sep 2023, page 212

alternative upside down

1. A dark and horrifying reality where the rules are different.

   It is in the upside down where we can find many opportunities to grow and learn.

   2022 September 29, Scott R. Sheehan, “The President’s Prose: Inside, Outside, Upside Down”, in Music Educators Journal, volume 109, number 1, →DOI, →ISSN, pages 7–10

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   This Upside Down economy was the product, Hansen said, of a shriveling population, the closing of the frontier and the maturing of industries.

   2019 August 13, Greg Rosalsky, “Is Our Economy In The Upside Down?”, in NPR, archived from the original on 01 Feb 2020

   it asks courts to step into the reality educators face: the reality of teaching in the upside down.

   2023 January 29, Tess Bissell, “Teaching in the Upside Down: What Anti–Critical Race Theory Laws Tell Us About the First Amendment”, in Stanford Law Review, volume 75, archived from the original on 21 Sep 2023, page 212