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Phrase(s): turn some place inside out
Fig. to search some place thoroughly. • I will find that book if I have to turn this place inside out! • I turned the room inside out and still didn’t find it., Phrase(s): 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.
McGrawhill's American Idioms And Phrasal Verbs