go head over heels
Example Sentences
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In fact, they have so much power behind that they find going downhill awkward, and sometimes, in flight down a steep place, they may actually go head over heels.
From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams
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Ah, I see I shall never do it, unless I go head over heels at once, as you said when you taught me to swim.
From Tom Brown's School Days by Hughes, Thomas
"And expect a score or two on ye to go head over heels," murmured William Boozey; "for I'm a looking at ye."
From Captain Boldheart & the Latin-Grammar Master A Holiday Romance from the Pen of Lieut-Col. Robin Redforth, aged 9 by Pearse, S. Beatrice
The postman would knock at the door, and my heart would go head over heels with excitement, and it would be a circular, or a bill wanting payment.
From More about Pixie by Groome, William H. C.
Mr. Ledge has done all he could to build things to catch hold of where you'd go head over heels to heaven if he hadn't, but it's a awful walk still.
From In a Mysterious Way by Warner, Anne