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Meanings of inverted world in English

Spanish
el mundo al revés

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el mundo al revés
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Examples for "world upside down"
Examples for "world upside down"
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Turning the world upside down may be one of its lesser incidents.
Essays Before a Sonata
2
It didn't look like something that would turn the world upside down.
Afterlife: the resurrection chronicles
3
Granny Thomas' love potion seemed to have turned the world upside down.
Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1909 to 1922
4
Here, Uncle John believed, the trio would turn the world upside down.
Wired
5
Any solar eclipse is spectacular because it turns the world upside down.
BBC
1
She opened them to a nightmare and a world turned upside down.
The Irish Times
2
Helen, then seventeen years old, had had her world turned upside down.
The Long War
3
But with the Iranian Revolution, my father's world turned upside down.
Funny in Farsi
4
Her world turned upside down when her father was arrested by the secret police.
Reuters
5
In a world turned upside down, a strange question arises.
The Irish Times
Usage of inverted world in English
1
This state and this society produce religion, which is an inverted consciousness of the world, because they are an inverted world.
The Guardian
2
Medics appeared in the screen, appearing to walk backward in the inverted world as they brought a dead body to lay beside the door.
Caliban's War
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