topsy-turvey

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So Meg wrestled alone with the refractory sweetmeats all that hot summer day, and at five o’clock sat down in her topsy-turvey kitchen, wrung her bedaubed hands, lifted up her voice and wept.

From "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott

But at that time I had worked a great deal with, and for ministers of more than one denomination, and I confess my ideas of the sacred office were turned topsy-turvey.

From All the Days of My Life: An Autobiography The Red Leaves of a Human Heart by Barr, Amelia Edith Huddleston

It is so affable of you, and I can only express my regrets that you should have happened to have chosen a day when you see we are all topsy-turvey.

From Fern Vale (Volume 3) or the Queensland Squatter by Munro, Colin

The man, Lilly was told, was the landlord of the house, a well-to-do baker, who had been invited to the carnival as a reward for good-naturedly having permitted his fourth floor to be turned topsy-turvey.

From The Song of Songs by Sudermann, Hermann

A motley world! too noisy--too wild--too harum-scarum-- everything topsy-turvey!

From Weird Tales, Vol. II. by Hoffmann, E. T. A. (Ernst Theodor Amadeus)