wrong side
noun1
Business, Manufacturing, Sewing, Textiles The side of a fabric, often with a less visible color or pattern, that is not intended to be seen on a finished project.
- Trace the pattern on the wrong side so that any mistakes won't show when you're done.
2
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see wrong, side.
- Don't drive on the wrong side of the road.
- But his grandson Francis, a Yorkist friend of Richard III, backed the wrong side in the Wars of the Roses and was declared a traitor by Henry VII, who confiscated his estates.1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 286:
- Related terms
- get on someone's wrong side, on the wrong side of history, wrong side of the tracks