head over heels
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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How to use head over heels in a sentence
"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.
Letters of Lt.-Col. George Brenton Laurie | George Brenton Lauriehead over heels he went as the pistol exploded for the second time.
The Daffodil Mystery | Edgar WallaceBobby scrambled higher, tumbled back more recklessly and fell, head over heels and upside down, on the daisied turf.
Greyfriars Bobby | Eleanor Atkinson
"I have fallen head over heels in love with the young lady," he confessed.
Mr. Grex of Monte Carlo | E. Phillips OppenheimWe walk, slide, and scramble down steep slopes where it would be easy to tumble down head over heels.
Trans-Himalaya, Vol. 2 (of 2) | Sven Hedin
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