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upside down

adverb

with the upper part undermost.
in or into complete disorder; topsy-turvy.
The burglars turned the house upside down.

upside down

(usually postpositive; upside-down when prenominal) turned over completely; inverted
informal��(upside-down when prenominal) confused; muddled; topsy-turvy
an upside-down world

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1300–50; re-formation ( upside ) of Middle English upsedoun, earlier up so doun ( up, so ¹, down ¹; sense of so obscure)

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C16: variant, by folk etymology, of earlier upsodown

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So, she said, she detached the U.S. flag from its pole and hung it upside down — a symbol of distress.

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"It's been awful, absolute hell, it's turned all of our lives upside down. My children are constantly having to readapt."

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“One usually turns upside down, so they meet talon to talon,” Taylor said.

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“Their lives have turned upside down overnight,” Ta said at a news conference Monday morning.

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�� the Trump administration is doing is turning empirical reality and the facts upside down.

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