turn upside down

Anglais

Étymologie
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Locution verbale

turn upside down transitif

  1. (Familier) Chambouler, bouleverser.
    • The excitement about the football championship turned the city upside down.
    • According to American legend, the British army band under Lord Cornwallis played the tune "The World Turned Upside Down" when they surrendered after the Siege of Yorktown (1781), near the end of the American Revolutionary War.

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