Hallowe'en, they turned the home town topsy-turvy. From Wordnik.com. [Ruth Fielding and the Gypsies The Missing Pearl Necklace] Reference
Every day his strange freaks set the empire topsy-turvy. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 85, November, 1864] Reference
I saw that her brain was topsy-turvy, and it rejoiced me. From Wordnik.com. [City Crimes or Life in New York and Boston] Reference
You would have society turned topsy-turvy, and all for what?. From Wordnik.com. [Ideala] Reference
The world had turned topsy-turvy in a matter of just four days. From Wordnik.com. [The New Bharat Forge] Reference
It's been a topsy-turvy year in which frustrations have bubbled over. From Wordnik.com. [D.C. job-training program aims to open doors -- and minds] Reference
At the home of the Blanchards, everything is topsy-turvy, and with reason. From Wordnik.com. [The Simple Life] Reference
But fortune has turned all things topsy-turvy, in a long story of revolutions. From Wordnik.com. [Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life] Reference
Even at home the debate about American intervention has been turned topsy-turvy. From Wordnik.com. [Loves Me, Loves Me Not] Reference
'We're going away to-morrow,' was the reply, 'and it is all topsy-turvy upstairs. From Wordnik.com. [Odd] Reference
How can they when the apportionment is so perverse, when everything is topsy-turvy?. From Wordnik.com. [My Daily Meditation for the Circling Year] Reference
It rattles and rattles like a cart laden with walnuts, which has turned topsy-turvy!. From Wordnik.com. [Hung Lou Meng, Book II Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books] Reference
Life seems sometimes to get topsy-turvy, and I for one can't make head nor tail of it. From Wordnik.com. [Flamsted quarries] Reference
What a topsy-turvy world this would be; the world would be upside down, yeah ... yeah. From Wordnik.com. [Natalie Merchant: Globe-Spanning Poetry] Reference
"The whole world just went topsy-turvy," thought one senior aide who was there that night. From Wordnik.com. [The People Vs. The Plotters] Reference
State, and the topsy-turvy consequences resulting from such a reversal of ordinary conditions. From Wordnik.com. [The Eleven Comedies, Volume 2] Reference
The new century is only a few days old and already the media world has been turned topsy-turvy. From Wordnik.com. [You Oughta Be In Videos] Reference
All Zoomba has to do is figure out how to bounce down the steps without turning topsy-turvy. From Wordnik.com. [Zoomba Juice] Reference
There rose up in his mind a sort of uncomfortable feeling that everything was going topsy-turvy. From Wordnik.com. [Little Folks (July 1884) A Magazine for the Young] Reference
"I shall be like a peacock turned topsy-turvy," she laughed -- "ashamed of my head instead of my feet!". From Wordnik.com. [Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 5, June 1905] Reference
Still, in less than 24 hours, her Olympic dream, her third Olympic venture, had been turned topsy-turvy. From Wordnik.com. [Homeward Bound] Reference
But researching the topic has well-placed me to also offer advice on a topsy-turvy version of that question. From Wordnik.com. [Cordelia Fine: A Career in Gender? Think Twice] Reference
The whole world appeared to be topsy-turvy and at the mercy of an angry and destroying demon of the elements. From Wordnik.com. [The Johnstown Horror!!! or, Valley of Death, being A Complete and Thrilling Account of the Awful Floods and Their Appalling Ruin] Reference
Ever since the comet missed earth, then bathed us all in its radiant tail, things on earth have been topsy-turvy. From Wordnik.com. [Cleaning Up After the Champion] Reference
Elsie was inclined to feel very much like poor old granny, who thought the world was turning topsy-turvy since her young days. From Wordnik.com. [Little Folks (October 1884) A Magazine for the Young] Reference
Everything in the wagon was topsy-turvy; and, half buried in the heap were two little girls, who had been riding in the vehicle. From Wordnik.com. [Crossing the Plains, Days of '57 A Narrative of Early Emigrant Tavel to California by the Ox-team Method] Reference
"It's a topsy-turvy world, isn't it?" says William Cline, research director of the Institute of International Finance in Washington. From Wordnik.com. [Power To The Poor] Reference
I can only tell you I thought we were topsy-turvy very often, and I hope we shall not experience any more angles of that kind again. From Wordnik.com. [Yr Ynys Unyg The Lonely Island] Reference
To make short of it, the coach-and-six turned them both topsy-turvy; but at the same time the coach, too, was completely overturned. From Wordnik.com. [Classic French Course in English] Reference
For fully three months, there was such a rubbing and scrubbing, painting and papering, that everything was turned completely topsy-turvy. From Wordnik.com. [The Silver Lining A Guernsey Story] Reference
Bunny, whose clothes were all dusty, and whose hair was all topsy-turvy, was standing in front of the janitor, an iceman and a policeman. From Wordnik.com. [Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue at Aunt Lu's City Home] Reference
I knew this must be no ordinary illness to cause so brief and so peremptory a summons home, and all my world seemed suddenly topsy-turvy. From Wordnik.com. [The Rose of Old St. Louis] Reference
It is one of the many topsy-turvy things in topsy-turvy China that this prosaic people is so addicted to picturesque and significant terms. From Wordnik.com. [A Wayfarer in China Impressions of a trip across West China and Mongolia] Reference
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