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right-side up

[ rahyt-sahyd ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

adverb

with the top or correct side facing up:
turn the carton right-side up;
a right-side up image.

First recorded in 1810–20

With the top facing upward, as in Please keep the box holding the china right-side up , or He turned his cards right-side up . [Early 1500s]

As long as the boats can be kept right side up they do go a tremendous pace.

A shoe horn used as shown in the sketch will hold the spoon right side up and in a position to hold the liquid.

In the morning we tried to get the canoe right side up; but finding that impossible, we concluded to abandon it entirely.

Mappo took her up in one of his strong hairy arms, and, very luckily he picked her right-side up.

Once I found a broken gourd which happened to lie right side up and which had been filled with the rain.

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