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

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

That time was full of a quite topsy-turvey tyranny, and the English humorist stood on his head to suit it.

From A Short History of England by Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)

"Well, it turns everything topsy-turvey," growled the castle steward.

From The Northern Light by Werner, E.

Mrs. Gamp's apartment wore, metaphorically speaking, a Bab-Balladish aspect, being considerably topsy-turvey, as rooms have a habit of being after any unusual ebullition of temper on the part of their occupants.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 98, May 24, 1890 by Various