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

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)

Only eat," put in Mr. Damon, "and we'll have to take our coffee cups half full, for everything is so tilted that it's like topsy-turvey land.

From Tom Swift in the Caves of Ice, or, the Wreck of the Airship by Appleton, Victor [pseud.]

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.

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