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Meanings of world turned upside down in English

Spanish
el mundo al revés

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el mundo al revés
Usage of world turned upside down in English
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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
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In a world turned upside down, a strange question arises.
The Irish Times
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In a world turned upside down, we still know surprisingly little about our government.
The Guardian
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Your world turned upside down; a boy dead; your daughter devastated by it all.
The lake
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He had the impression of the world turned upside down.
Speaks the Nightbird
9
Instead their world turned upside down in first-half stoppage time.
The Guardian
10
Is Harris crazy, or has the world turned upside down?
Reuters
11
Now, Europe seems a world turned upside down, where people fear the stranger in their midst.
The Guardian
12
They were all like sights in a mirror, or things in a world turned upside down.
A Foregone Conclusion
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He would light upon his feet, as he expressed it, if the world turned upside down.
The Golden Dog
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Two books reflect a world turned upside down.
The Irish Times
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I ran until the entire world turned upside down, and I woke up in the hospital.
Leaving Time
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Mia, 15, sees her world turned upside down when her mother brings home a new boyfriend.
Reuters
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