Thesaurus / topsy-turvy
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Everything is topsy-turvy in Europe according to our moral ideas, and they don't have what we call "men" over here.
MUSIC-STUDY IN GERMANYAMY FAYWhy, I know not what you call it; but if the house were turned topsy turvy, I should be in the cellar.
THE BOOK OF ANECDOTES AND BUDGET OF FUN;VARIOUSAlmost comic this last—a sort of topsy-turvy adultery charge!
A GERMAN POMPADOURMARIE HAYIt was all over, the light was gone, everything was topsy-turvy.
THE VARMINTOWEN JOHNSONThe bottom had, indeed, dropped out of things—the universe was topsy-turvy.
THE VARMINTOWEN JOHNSONBut, my lady, you hurry me so, it puts every thing topsy-turvy in my head; I could tell it as fast as possible my own way.
TALES AND NOVELS, VOLUME 3 (OF 10)MARIA EDGEWORTHIt is this quality which is responsible for their creation of strange types whose ideas and conversations are all topsy-turvy.
THE ENGLISH STAGEAUGUSTIN FILONThis topsy-turvy progress is fairly swift and is not less in speed to that of an equally fat grub travelling on its legs.
MORE HUNTING WASPSJ. HENRI FABREIt rang about the room, it swept with gay and topsy-turvy cleansing through every heart and blew the cobwebs far away.
"PERSONS UNKNOWN"VIRGINIA TRACYFrom morn till eve everything in the town was topsy-turvy; the rebellion, which had been repressed so long, now broke forth.
THE LIFE OF JOAN OF ARC, VOL. 1 AND 2 (OF 2)ANATOLE FRANCEWORDS RELATED TO TOPSY-TURVY
- agitation
- ailment
- anxiety
- anxiousness
- bedlam
- bustle
- commotion
- confusion
- disorder
- disquiet
- disquietude
- distress
- disturbance
- dither
- ferment
- flap
- flurry
- free-for-all
- fuss
- hassle
- hectic
- hubbub
- lather
- mix up
- noise
- pandemonium
- pother
- restiveness
- restlessness
- riot
- row
- ruckus
- stir
- strife
- to-do
- topsy-turvy
- trouble
- tumult
- turbulence
- unrest
- uproar
- violence
- whirl
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