go head over heels

Example Sentences

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In fact, they have so much power behind that they find going downhill awkward, and sometimes, in flight down a steep place, they may actually go head over heels.

From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams

This ship looks also as if she would go head over heels much more easily than the 'Furious.'

From Letters and Journals of James, Eighth Earl of Elgin by James, Eighth Earl of Elgin

The postman would knock at the door, and my heart would go head over heels with excitement, and it would be a circular, or a bill wanting payment.

From More about Pixie by Groome, William H. C.

Ah, I see I shall never do it, unless I go head over heels at once, as you said when you taught me to swim.

From Tom Brown's School Days by Hughes, Thomas

I say—if I fall I shall go head over heels down, like a ball.”

From To The West by Fenn, George Manville