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

Their ideas are so topsy-turvey that they regard with contempt those who are engaged in useful work!

From The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists by Tressell, Robert

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

I had to turn him up and down, to the right and left, topsy-turvey, before I could get his head clear.

From The Hero of the Humber or the History of the Late Mr. John Ellerthorpe by Woodcock, Henry

And my father is going to marry again," said Hester; "it seems to me as if the world were turning topsy-turvey.

From Red Rose and Tiger Lily or, In a Wider World by Meade, L. T.