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

This is the true inwardness of the topsy-turvey humourist.

From Without Prejudice by Zangwill, Israel

I had to turn him up and down, to the right and left, topsy-turvey, before I could get his head clear.

From The Hero of the Humber or the History of the Late Mr. John Ellerthorpe by Woodcock, Henry

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

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