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Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—T

Topsy-turvy

Upside down. (Anglo-Saxon, top side turn-aweg.) As Shakespeare says, “Turn it topsy-turvy down.” (1 Henry IV., iv. 1.) (See Half-Seas Over.)

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894

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