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turn topsy-turvy

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turn (something) topsy-turvy

to completely change something, or to completely change. The steel industry is about to be turned topsy-turvy by a technological revolution. My life has turned topsy-turvy.

See also: topsy-turvy, turn

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I had no doubt but that they regarded children as odious incumbrances; and their ideas of domestic felicity were sufficiently shown in the fact, that they allowed no meddlesome housekeepers to turn topsy-turvy those snug little arrangements they had made in their comfortable dwelling. Typee by Melville, Herman View in context More results

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turn/twist the knife

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