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Definition of Inside out
1. Adverb. With the inside facing outward. "She turned the shirt inside out"
2. Adverb. Thoroughly; from every perspective. "She knows this town inside out"
Definition of Inside out
1. Adverb. (not comparable) With the inside surface turned to be on the outside. ¹
2. Adverb. Of knowledge: Thoroughly, extremely well. ¹
3. Adverb. (cricket) Describes the hitting of a ball that pitched outside of leg stump to the off side of the field. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Inside Out
Literary usage of Inside out
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1899)
"EVERSION OR TURNING inside out OF THE SAC OF A CYS- ... sac through an opening
large enough to permit of turning the wall inside out. ..."
2. Studies of a Biographer by Leslie Stephen (1902)
"turning himself inside out for public inspection. Since his time we have had
similar exhibitions on a larger scale. Rousseau said that he was making a new ..."
3. English Prose (1137-1890) by John Matthews Manly (1909)
"Thus, in the course of two days, he had turned this wineskin of a Tabary inside
out. For a while longer the farce was carried on ; the Prior was introduced ..."
4. History of California by Theodore Henry Hittell (1898)
"... if we can only escape David C. Broderick's hired bullies a little while longer,
we will turn this city inside out but what we will expose the corruption ..."
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