topsy-turvydom

American  

[top-see-tur-vee-duhm] / ˈtɒp siˈtɜr vi dəm /

noun

1. a state of affairs or a region in which everything is topsy-turvy.

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Etymology

Origin of topsy-turvydom

First recorded in 1875–80; topsy-turvy + -dom

Example Sentences

"The Sorcerer" is a merry story of sentimental topsy-turvydom.

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Press Opinions The Times.—"It is crammed full of life and beauty ... this delicious, fantastical, amorphous, inspired medley of topsy-turvydom."

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It was only a detail in the topsy-turvydom that in one short year had changed a subaltern in a crack English cavalry regiment into an ill-paid drudge in a dry-goods store.

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This new-born human conditionality calls for a new morality; this new union of equals a new beauty; this new topsy-turvydom a new system of ethics.

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And then came another turn of the wheel of topsy-turvydom, and all the logic was scattered to the wind.

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