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

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

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

The fame of the former brought Sterne to London, where he became, says Walpole, "topsy-turvey with success."

From The World's Greatest Books — Volume 19 — Travel and Adventure by Hammerton, John Alexander, Sir

He would be found, she was confident, not to have gone through the looking-glass into the world of topsy-turvey that all the rest of them seemed to be inhabiting, these days.

From Mary Wollaston by Webster, Henry Kitchell