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head over heels

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head over heels (in love)
to be in love with someone very much. It's obvious that they're head over heels in love with each other.
Usage notes: often used with fall to describe the beginning of a relationship: They met at a nightclub and instantly fell head over heels for one another.
See also: head, heel, over


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When the church came to itself - for he was so sudden and strong that he made it go head over heels before me, and I saw the steeple under my feet - when the church came to itself, I say, I was seated on a high tombstone, trembling, while he ate the bread ravenously.
The poor Scarecrow went whirling through the air and so cleverly was he aimed that he struck Ojo's back and sent the boy tumbling head over heels, and he tripped Dorothy and sent her, also, sprawling upon the ground.
I needed exercise, so I employed my agent in setting stranded logs and dead trees adrift, and I sat on a boulder and watched them go whirling and leaping head over heels down the boiling torrent.
 
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