turn someone or something inside out

turn someone or something inside out
turn someone or something inside out
to evert someone or something; to pull the inside of someone or something out to become the outside. (With people, this refers to mutilation.) •

I felt like the explosion was going to turn me inside out.

Ken turned his pockets inside out.


Dictionary of American idioms. 2013.

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