inside out

à l’envers

Avec la face intérieure tournée vers l’extérieur.

En anglais simple : 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?

Comment l'utiliser : turn something inside out (Turn the shirt inside out before washing it.); have something on inside out (You have your sweater on inside out.)

Contraires : right side out

Expressions courantes : turn something inside out, wear something inside out, inside out shirt

à fond, sur le bout des doigts

En connaissant quelque chose jusque dans ses moindres détails.

En anglais simple : 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?

Synonymes : thoroughly, extremely well

Expressions courantes : know something inside out, learn something inside out

entièrement, jusqu’au fond de soi

Dans tous les aspects de sa personnalité ou de son être.

En anglais simple : 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.

Synonymes : completely, through and through

Expressions courantes : changed inside out, honest inside out

vers le côté opposé

Au cricket, en frappant la balle du côté des jambes vers le côté opposé du terrain.

En anglais simple : 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?

Expressions courantes : hit inside out, drive inside out