higgledy-piggledy

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Higgledy-piggledy, Rural Australia is Loaded with critters we’d Better beware: These include octopi, Thanatophidia, Spiders and dingoes, but Not the drop bear.*

From Washington Post • Aug. 12, 2021

Or to history: Higgledy-piggledy, Benjamin Harrison, Twenty-third President, Was, and, as such, Served between Clevelands, and Save for this trivial Idiosyncracy, Didn't do much.

From Time Magazine Archive

Higgledy-piggledy, Emily Dickinson Never thought spinsterhood Much of a curse.

From Time Magazine Archive

Higgledy-piggledy in the branches were wedged baskets of supplies, and on a corner of the platform, protected on two sides by branches, was Mother’s picture, weighted down with stones.

From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer

Then up the street they took their way, And knockt up good Lord Grant-ham; Higgledy-piggledy they lay, And all went rantam scantam.

From The Impeachment of The House of Brunswick by Bradlaugh, Charles