stand/turn (something) on its head

to make an idea or belief the opposite of what it was before.

The first feminists simply took the accepted view that men were superior to women and turned it on its head.

• avail of
• avail of something
• avail yourself of
• avail yourself of something
• avant-garde
• average out to
• average out to something
• a vicious circle
• a voice in the wilderness
• avoid like the plague
• avoid someone like the plague
• avoid something like the plague
• a volte-face
• a wake-up call
• a walk of life
• a war of nerves
• a war of words
• a waste of breath
• a watched pot never boils.
• a way of life
• a weak link
• a weak link in the chain
• a wet blanket
• a wet dream
• a whale of a