head over heels

Idioms and Phrases

Completely, thoroughly, as in They fell head over heels in love . This expression originated in the 1300s as heels over head and meant literally being upside down. It took its present form in the 1700s and its present meaning in the 1800s.

Example Sentences

"She was like a farm girl, and he fell head over heels in love with her," said one source.

From The Daily Beast

“You were head over heels,” Byron says of Ames and his wife.

From The Daily Beast

The ring having become unriveted, the shell did not spin, and simply turned head over heels.

From Project Gutenberg

Head over heels he went as the pistol exploded for the second time.

From Project Gutenberg

Bobby scrambled higher, tumbled back more recklessly and fell, head over heels and upside down, on the daisied turf.

From Project Gutenberg

"I have fallen head over heels in love with the young lady," he confessed.

From Project Gutenberg

We walk, slide, and scramble down steep slopes where it would be easy to tumble down head over heels.

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