| 释义 |
turn something inside out1Turn the inner surface of something outwards: she played with her gloves, turning each finger inside out...- Hand it to a knitter and they would look, admire and then turn it inside out to check out the steeks, whether you weave or carry your yarn, knot or splice and check out the stitching.
- This is rather like turning a sock inside out, only with the surface of the sock covered with numerous tiny hooks.
- Petruchio, having declared it unfit for her, turned the right red cap inside out so that the brown lining was displayed.
1.1Change something utterly: it is not so easy to turn your whole life inside out...- In the poem, Coleridge takes that ancient image of human purpose, the triumphant journey to master a world, and reverses it, turns it inside out.
- Camp is a world where the norms of society are turned upside down and inside out into a culture of its own.
- Accordingly, architectural practice needs to be turned inside-out.
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