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📚 adj • entry_id 18186

back to front

Meanings (ES + gloss)
al revés • prepóstero
Reversed, with the back now at the front.
The classic VW Beetle is a back to front car, with the engine at the rear.
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📚 adv • entry_id 18185

back to front

Meanings (ES + gloss)
al revés • prepósteramente
Turned so that the back is now at the front; the wrong way around.
(figuratively, by extension) Of an order or cause of events, misunderstood or misinterpreted.
I was in such a hurry that I put my underpants on back to front.
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