wrong side out adverb2 •Of a garment, etc, having its inner or hidden side on the outside and vice versa.We all struggled frantically into our clothes, […] getting them wrong-side-out and upside-down, as a rule. — 1883 •(figurative) Reversed, changed diametrically, by analogy with a garment that is wrong side out.When I inform'd him, then he call'd me sot, And told me I had turn'd the wrong side out. — 1603
