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View synonyms for head over heels

head over heels



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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.
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Example Sentences

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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