inside out

With the inner surface facing outward instead of inward.

• Your shirt is inside out.
• I turned my pockets inside out.
• Did you put your socks on inside out?

How to use it: turn something inside out (Turn the shirt inside out before washing it.); have something on inside out (You have your sweater on inside out.)

Opposites: right side out

Common phrases: turn something inside out, wear something inside out, inside out shirt

If you know something this well, you understand every part of it.

• She knows this town inside out.
• I learned the rules inside out before the test.
• Do you know the computer system inside out?

Similar words: thoroughly, extremely well

Common phrases: know something inside out, learn something inside out

In every part of your character or being.

• The experience changed him inside out.
• She is a country girl inside out.
• They remained loyal fans inside out.

Similar words: completely, through and through

Common phrases: changed inside out, honest inside out

In cricket, hitting a ball from the leg side towards the opposite side of the field.

• He hit the ball inside out for four runs.
• The batter drove inside out past the fielder.
• Can she play that shot inside out?

Common phrases: hit inside out, drive inside out