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standing on one's head

  1. see under do blindfolded.



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There was no place for standing on one's head.

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Nuova seemed to know that she should begin working as a nurse, and to know how to do the work, for as soon as she started she did just about as well as any of the nurses, but floor-cleaning, and standing on one's head and fanning one's wings like mad, were not things she knew about yet.

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Standing on One's Head.—If we make truth stand on its head, we generally fail to notice that our own head, too, is not in its right position.

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The sensible way to contemplate the state of affairs in the American League last week was in what yoga enthusiasts call the Sirsasana position�standing on one's head.

This is the logical order, because one goes to the street and then finds the number, but it gives to the American reader a curious sensation of mentally standing on one's head.

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