topsy-turvy

Speech parts

1. topsy-turvy - Noun

2. topsy-turvy - Adjective

3. topsy-turvy - Verb

4. topsy-turvy - Adverb

6. topsy-turvy - Phrase

7. topsy-turvy - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

In an inverted posture; with the top or head downward; upside down; as, to turn a carriage topsy-turvy.

Alternative names

topsy turvy

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The idea of storage as a solution of economic problems at least has the support of common sense. It is diametrically opposed to the topsy-turvy Alice-in-Wonderland reasoning that has marked so much of our depression thinking and policy. Benjamin Graham

I've studied men from my topsy-turvy Close, and I reckon, rather true. Some are fine fellows: some, right scurvy; Most, a dash between the two. George Meredith

The sound principle of a topsy-turvy lifestyle in the framework of an upside-down world order has stood every test. Karl Kraus

Men's activities are occupied into ways -- in grappling with external circumstances and in striving to set things at one in their own topsy-turvy mind. William James

When the husband is a hen and the wife is a cock, the house is topsy-turvy. Maltese Proverb

a disorderly pile of clothes Source: Internet

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