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right-side up
[ rahyt-sahyd ]
adverb
- with the top or correct side facing up:
turn the carton right-side up;
a right-side up image.
Word History and Origins
Origin of right-side up1
Idioms and Phrases
With the top facing upward, as in Please keep the box holding the china right-side up , or He turned his cards right-side up . [Early 1500s]Example Sentences
As long as the boats can be kept right side up they do go a tremendous pace.
A shoe horn used as shown in the sketch will hold the spoon right side up and in a position to hold the liquid.
In the morning we tried to get the canoe right side up; but finding that impossible, we concluded to abandon it entirely.
Mappo took her up in one of his strong hairy arms, and, very luckily he picked her right-side up.
Once I found a broken gourd which happened to lie right side up and which had been filled with the rain.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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