Idiom
turn upside down
Meaning
To thoroughly examine.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“I turned my room upside down looking for my keys.”
“The police turned the apartment upside down searching for evidence of the crime.”
“The investigators turned the entire archive upside down, hoping to uncover the forgotten documents that would finally explain the mystery.”
Examples
simple
“I turned my room upside down looking for my keys.”
contextual
“The police turned the apartment upside down searching for evidence of the crime.”
complex
“The investigators turned the entire archive upside down, hoping to uncover the forgotten documents that would finally explain the mystery.”
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