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topsy-turvy
1. (informal) if a situation is topsy-turvy, it is confused and not well organized because things happen in the wrong order or people believe things are important when they are not The government's topsy-turvy priorities mean that spending on education remains low. We're living in topsy-turvy times. 2. (informal) if a room or a place is topsy-turvy, it is very untidy He went out leaving the house all topsy-turvy. Want to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit the webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Such topsy-turviness is all of a piece in this curious town, where you can smoke inside in some bars yet not drink in others - 'We operate a no-alcohol policy here at the Cracker Barrel,' says the waiter with a slightly wonky, crazed grin. The worst thing about the Molehill Era is that topsy-turviness itself is offensive. For Smith, breaking and disrupting boundaries in theater and society culminate in the execution of Charles I in 1649, an event prepared for by the theater which preceded it: "the merging of theater, festive topsy-turviness and punishment in the mid-seventeenth century may owe much to the deconsecration of authority in the drama that preceded it, but the drama of the early seventeenth century owes as much to the highly experimental and bold invocation of . |
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