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turn upside down

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turn something upside down
to change something completely. His experience in the war turned his world upside down. The crash of the dot-com companies turned lives upside down.
Related vocabulary: turn something on its head
See also: down, turn


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No sooner had Joey told us this than the poor old fellow began to turn upside down and stood on his head; but we pretended not to notice, and talked about the weather until he came to.
They bury their dead with their heads directly downward, because they hold an opinion, that in eleven thousand moons they are all to rise again; in which period the earth (which they conceive to be flat) will turn upside down, and by this means they shall, at their resurrection, be found ready standing on their feet.
 
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