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

Then for run-away, topsy-turvey wit I think I would back "The Story of the Tin Heart" and "The Camel who never got Started," against most stories I know.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, August 29, 1891 by Various

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

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

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)