topsy-turvydom
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of topsy-turvydom
First recorded in 1875–80; topsy-turvy + -dom
Example Sentences
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Last week the American College of Allergists met in Chicago to hear the latest reports from topsy-turvydom.
From Time Magazine Archive
Sullivan, for all the delirious ridiculousness inherent in his music, had long been chafing at Gilbert's contagiously ridiculous topsy-turvydom.
From Time Magazine Archive
He himself was fonder of his serious comedies than of his triumphant excursions into topsy-turvydom.
From Time Magazine Archive
This intolerable topsy-turvydom is no exaggeration of the way in which stories cut across each other and sites are imposed on each other in the historic chaos of the Holy City.
From The New Jerusalem by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton
As my old Chinese writer said a week ago, Peking has never been in such a state of topsy-turvydom since the robber who unseated the Ming dynasty rushed in two and a half centuries ago....
From Indiscreet Letters From Peking Being the Notes of an Eye-Witness, Which Set Forth in Some Detail, from Day to Day, the Real Story of the Siege and Sack of a Distressed Capital in 1900—The Year of Great Tribulation by B. L. (Bertram Lenox) Putnam Weale
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