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

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)

Boston is topsy-turvey; Holmes was a prophet; and 'Brattle Street and Temple Place are interchanging cards!'

From Real Folks by Whitney, A. D. T. (Adeline Dutton Train)

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