The Collaborative International Dictionary
To be upsides with
Upside \Up"side`\, n.
The upper side; the part that is uppermost.
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the benefits; the positive features; -- said of a situation or event that has both positive (good) and negative (bad) aspects.
To be upsides with, to be even with. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.]
--Sir W. Scott.
--T. Hughes.Upside down. [Perhaps a corruption of OE. up so down, literally, up as down.] With the upper part undermost; hence, in confusion; in complete disorder; topsy-turvy.
--Shak.These that have turned the world upside down are come hither also.
--Acts xvii. 6.