turn sth upside down
to search everywhere for something, sometimes leaving a place very untidy:
I turned the apartment upside down but I couldn't find the letter.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Searching
- a needle in a haystack idiom
- beachcomber
- bounty hunter
- burrow
- cast around
- dig
- drag
- nose
- once-over
- pick
- pick through sth
- poke
- poke around
- seek
- strip search
- trail
- turn a place inside out idiom
- wanted
- wild-goose chase
- witch hunt
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