单词 | right sides up |
释义 | > as lemmasright sides up P3. right side up (also right side upwards (uppermost, etc.)): with the principal side uppermost; in the correct position; in the proper manner; (as adjectival phrase) upright, positioned correctly. Also right sides up and figurative. ΚΠ 1720 J. T. Desaguliers tr. W. J. 's Gravesande Math. Elements Nat. Philos. I. ii. 238 Set the Machine again the right Side upwards [L. erigatur machina]. 1837 C. Dickens Pickwick Papers xliii. 476 ‘He won't be a Chancery prisoner wery long, Sir,’ replied Roker, turning his hat round so as to get the maker's name right side upwards as he looked into it. 1860 Amer. Agriculturist Dec. 355/1 The movable comb hive is fully ventilated, right side up, by simply opening the holes in the honey board, or removing it. 1872 Routledge's Every Boy's Ann. 11/2 This..smuggling pedlar (with whom I hope to be right sides uppermost before I die). 1897 Daily News 17 Mar. 2/1 To the power of presenting a case systematically and clearly he united that of putting it, as it has been expressed, ‘right side up’. 1930 W. M. Mann Wild Animals in & out of Zoo xxi. 270 When the annoyer leaves, it will wriggle right side up and crawl off. 1940 Railroad Mag. Apr. 20/1 So long as the engine was right side up, riding was safer than ‘joining the birds’. 1997 N.Y. Times 17 Oct. b20/3 He quickly turned his sheet music right side up before the trio began a section from Bach's ‘Art of the Fugue’. 2006 Threads July 43 Lay both pattern pieces right sides up, abutting the vertical seamlines at the upper, mismatched end. < as lemmas |
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