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the other way round

Adverb

Meaning

The same but with the mentioned things or people in reverse order or position.

In reversed orientation.
If it isn't working, try turning the battery the other way round.

Source: en.wiktionary.org

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Examples

The present enables us to understand the past, not the other way round. A. J. P. Taylor

Literature is mostly about having sex and not much about having children. Life is the other way round. David Lodge

I believe that cinema picks up ideas from society and not the other way round. Amitabh Bachchan

It is nationalism which engenders nations, and not the other way round. Ernest Gellner

The wise man who is not heeded is counted a fool, and the fool who proclaims the general folly first and loudest passes for a prophet and Führer, and sometimes it is luckily the other way round as well, or else mankind would long since have perished of stupidity. Carl Jung

So I took it as a very positive sign that the club came to me rather than the other way round. Dennis Bergkamp

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