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)
It may be proper to make us all stand on our heads, with our legs sticking up in the air; but I for one don't like being topsy-turvey, and I won't try it.
From He Knew He Was Right by Trollope, Anthony
His existence was overwhelmed by this event; it was turned topsy-turvey, and it never regained its equilibrium.
From Some Diversions of a Man of Letters by Gosse, Edmund
Malo did far more than make R�champ fall in love with her: she turned his world topsy-turvey, and prevented his ever again squeezing himself into his little old pigeon-hole of prejudices.
From Coming Home 1916 by Wharton, Edith
