English-Portuguese translations for the other way around

• ao contrário
  Bom seria que tivesse sido ao contrário! Would it had been the other way around!
  A democracia tem de ser construída de baixo para cima, e não ao contrário. Democracy must be built from the bottom up, not the other way around.
  A Suécia seguiu o exemplo do Reino Unido, ou talvez tenha sido ao contrário. That example is followed by Sweden, or perhaps it is the other way around.
• pelo contrário
  A Turquia comporta-se como se a União desejasse aderir à Turquia, quando é, pelo contrário, a Turquia quem pede para aderir à União. Turkey is behaving as if the Union were wanting to join Turkey. In fact it is the other way around, Turkey is asking to join the Union.

Definition of the other way around

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

Synonyms

• the other way about

Related words

• the other
• other-initiated other-repair
• the other way|the other
• the grass is always greener on the other side
• the shoe is on the other foot
• the other side of the coin
• the other side of the equation
• the other way round
• the other day