Definition of The other way around

1. Adverb. With the order reversed. "She hates him and vice versa"

Exact synonyms: Contrariwise, Vice Versa

Definition of The other way around

1. Adverb. The same but with the things or people mentioned in reverse order. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of The Other Way Around

the living dead
the long and short
the man
the map is not the territory
the more the merrier
the more things change, the more they stay the same
the name of the game
the night before last
the night is young
the nose knows
the old woman is plucking her goose
the one
the ones
the other day
the other place
the other way around (current term)
the other way round
the outer
the party is over
the pen is mightier than the sword
the penny drops
the pick of the litter
the pit
the pits
the plot thickens
the proof is in the pudding
the proof of the pudding is in the eating
the quality
the rabbit died
the race that stops a nation

Literary usage of The other way around

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of English Usage by Inc. Merriam-Webster (1994)
"... and Luckhurst to India, not the other way around — Tony Lewis, Cricketer International, August 1976 these days it is usually the other way round — Times ..."

2. All the Children of All the People: A Study of the Attempt to Educate Everybody by William Hawley Smith (1912)
"I will consider it the other way around later on. I have come, then, to think of the mind and the body as related to each other something after the manner ..."

3. The Interpretation of dreams by Sigmund Freud (1913)
"Perhaps, however, it is the other way around ? " Now, this other way around is explicitly represented in the dream, in that Goethe has attacked the young ..."

4. Under Cover: Evolution of Upholstered Furniture by Ed van Hinte (2006)
"... unique design of a bench that works like a tent, or the other way around. The first is that form can come into being by itself, as the result of ..."

5. Transactions of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers by American Society of Mechanical Engineers (1884)
"At each end a groove runs out radially, and between the extremities of these latter an annular space extends the other \ way around the wheel, ..."

6. Representative American Plays by Arthur Hobson Quinn (1917)
"... just wait till one does, and then you '11 thank heaven the other way around. VICTORIA. How do you know'? unless you 're in love yourself. Jo. ..."

7. Current Social and Industrial Forces by Lionel Danforth Edie (1920)
"... and the same thing the other way around. It has happened in the past, for instance, that the rich who run the government would buy the bonds and then in ..."

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