How To Use Topsy-turvy In A Sentence
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The weather this month has turned topsy-turvy.
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Then again, when has the table had any relevance on this topsy-turvy league?
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The word topsy entered the English language in 1528 as part of the assonant adverb topsy-turvy.
No Uncertain Terms
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The American election is having a particularly topsy-turvy effect on British politics.
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Stan Collymore (LIVERPOOL v Newcastle, 1996) The phrase topsy-turvy is too lightweight to describe just how breathtaking this match was.
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Before his facile perils and ready laugh, life was no longer an affair of serious effort and restraint, but a toy, to be played with and turned topsy-turvy, carelessly to be lived and pleasured in, and carelessly to be flung aside.
Chapter 2
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Aside from my life being turned upside down with my mother having been ill and now with my sister-in-law being in palliative care in Halifax, things have been somewhat topsy-turvy.
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Infotel's topsy-turvy legal odyssey is being stalled by complex questions about international jurisdiction.
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The actions of the legs, torso, and neck are essentially the same in both poses, although these actions feel different when you turn topsy-turvy and reverse your body's relationship to gravity.
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It shows how topsy-turvy the world is.
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I also wonder what sort of topsy-turvy world we live in where being fat cannot be shamed but being slim is criticised with such freedom.
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This sudden development turned all our plans topsy-turvy.
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That the world has turned topsy-turvy is enough to cope with for the present.
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This topsy-turvy condition resulted in an expensive and chaotic quest for new artistic direction.
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What a topsy-turvy world it has become.
The Sun
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Set against the gorgeous backdrop of Rome, Tom Rachmans wry, vibrant debut follows the topsy-turvy private lives of the reporters, editors, and executives of an international English language newspaper as they struggle to keep itand themselvesafloat.
Days of Atonement by Michael Gregorio: Book summary
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The weather this month has turned topsy-turvy.
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In this topsy-turvy world, religion and literature are meaningless.
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And when the Press Complaints Commission steps in to point out that not all politicians are ‘fair game’, it is fair to assume that you have tumbled into a topsy-turvy place.
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Now the economic world was topsy-turvy.
The Collins History of the World in the 20th Century
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But Sarah's outlook remains optimistic and most importantly as balanced as it can be in the upside-down, topsy-turvy world of an actor.
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The dame, usually a man dressed as a woman and always the funniest character in any pantomime, harks back to ancient days when the mid-winter celebration was a topsy-turvy affair with lots of blowsy humour and surprises.
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Ok, so life is topsy-turvy (even by my standards) at the moment.
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Not for the first time, I reflect on the topsy-turvy, upside-down parallel universe of India.
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Now the economic world was topsy-turvy.
The Collins History of the World in the 20th Century
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Now, physicists in England have demonstrated a topsy-turvy Doppler shift in which a radio wave's frequency rises as the source recedes.
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a topsy-turvy society of lowborn rich and blue-blooded poor
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They may not get many better opportunities than this topsy-turvy season.
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The rain this year sent nature topsy-turvy.
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In the topsy-turvy chaos of a web world where images and ideas are deracinated, massively projected, manipulated and recycled, Lawson's beachwear has already become iconic – and in a small way, revolutionary.
Nigella Lawson and the great burkini cover-up
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Too much protection for goalkeepers would make the game topsy-turvy.
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It was properly sparked off in 2001, when an all-conquering Australian side under Steve Waugh suffered a rare reverse in a remarkable, topsy-turvy series in India, where they ran into a young Harbhajan Singh , who took 32 wickets in three matches, and were on the receiving end of a mammoth, series-turning 376 partnership between VVS Laxman and Rahul Dravid at Kolkata.
A Boxing Day Treat to Savor
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Sorry, I was just being pedantic about the word pedantic, noticing **in general** how people use the term and their topsy-turvy sense of priorities seem to be.
Phi Beta Kappa + masters degree = instant Etruscanist
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The phrase topsy-turvy is too lightweight to describe just how breathtaking this match was.
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The whole house was so glad that the scoundrel had been exposed that they set up siccan a roar of laughter, and thumped away at siccan a rate with their feet that down fell the place they called the gallery, all the folk in't being hurl'd topsy-turvy among the sawdust on the floor below.
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This ‘wildered’ reading-effect, however, is one of the book's unhappier accidents since it suggests that Schad's enthusiasm for topsy-turvy meanings can prove dangerously infectious.
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One of the topsy-turvy things about Australia is the way people rush to identify themselves as an underdog or a battler, the way in which being an outsider, a misfit, is the conservative, establishment position.
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But this was a topsy-turvy game like no other.
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Now folks begin with sweet things, and turn their dinners topsy-turvy.
Cranford
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By beating the crowd favorites in topsy-turvy matches, No. 6 Dementieva and No. 9 Kuznetsova became the first Russian women to reach a U.S.
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This is the topsy-turvy political world we now live in.
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Well, Wolf, as you know, this has been a topsy-turvy race all the way along, one candidate's been up, one candidate's been down.
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They may not get many better opportunities than this topsy-turvy season.
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It continued the astonishing, topsy-turvy nature of this series.
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Research highlights how topsy-turvy the world has become.
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In Weigel's topsy-turvy world, the bishops' main failing was not arrogance but its antithesis: passivity.
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After a recent topsy-turvy spell (we live in interesting political times), the Civil Union Bill appears to be back on track.
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For in today's topsy-turvy business world, defining core corporate purpose, even at the level of social chit-chat, has never offered a tougher challenge.
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Usually, galaxies this topsy-turvy result from a recent collision with a neighboring galaxy.
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The island is a topsy-turvy world, a magical and terrifying place where the voyagers' encounters are unpredictable, filled with treachery, danger and wonder.
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Evidence from matching geological ages and structures turns the world topsy-turvy.
THE EARTH: An Intimate History
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In this topsy-turvy world, religion and literature are meaningless.
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In such a topsy-turvy season and with wet weather beckoning, how can you predict?
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It is a topsy-turvy game.
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That the world has turned topsy-turvy is enough to cope with for the present.
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It is a topsy-turvy world that they inhabit.
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This is the topsy-turvy world of the mainstream media.
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What a topsy-turvy world it has become.
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What a topsy-turvy world it has become.
The Sun
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But this was a topsy-turvy game like no other.
The Sun
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One of the topsy-turvy things about Australia is the way people rush to identify themselves as an underdog or a battler, the way in which being an outsider, a misfit, is the conservative, establishment position.
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The topsy-turvy nature of the Parliamentary debate on a Bill to limit the use of parental corporal punishment would make an excellent scenario for a Gilbert and Sullivan operetta.
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But the deeper effect of seeing the world from a different perspective, of calmly abiding in a topsy-turvy, upside-down world, may be the most profound benefit of all.
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Usually, galaxies this topsy-turvy result from a recent collision with a neighboring galaxy.
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Now the economic world was topsy-turvy.
The Collins History of the World in the 20th Century
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Welcome to the topsy-turvy world of British politics, where success is rewarded with a relatively lowly salary, and failure is met with a succession of job offers, inducements and lavish speaking fees.
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But this was a topsy-turvy game like no other.
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In England, the politics of this issue are strangely topsy-turvy.
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In the current topsy-turvy climate, the organisers are still reliant on decent pitch and weather conditions, but are confident that the next four weeks will prove favourable.
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The actions of the legs, torso, and neck are essentially the same in both poses, although these actions feel different when you turn topsy-turvy and reverse your body's relationship to gravity.
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This is the topsy-turvy political world we now live in.
The Sun
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Probing the topsy-turvy jumble of wreckage, I spotted the parallel lines of tank tracks.
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If you're living in a topsy-turvy world, try a pineapple upside-down cake, a fresh-berry baked custard, or a green tomato pie.
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It is an amazing topsy-turvy season.
The Sun
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Despite some media euphemizing the protests as the ‘middle class’ taking to the street, the reality is that this is a just topsy-turvy political stunt.
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In this topsy-turvy world, religion and literature are meaningless.
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It is a topsy-turvy game.
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Borough came back from a disastrous start to get a point in a topsy-turvy encounter at Runcorn on Tuesday.
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Times stylebook tinker’s dam/damn top of the line top secret topsy-turvy totally touching base to wit transparency trioxymoron trunk show tsouris/tsoris tummy-button tut-tutting two other/other two typo-poetry
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Using this screening method, a scientists unclosed 9 molecules that topsy-turvy a lethal goods of glutamate.
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My friends, the world has finally gone topsy-turvy.
Shuttle Shutdown Coming - NASA Watch
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These are the barmy ideas of overpaid senior officers with topsy-turvy priorities.
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It has been a topsy-turvy league and Cavan are no spent force.
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The rain this year sent nature topsy-turvy.
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The world has gone topsy-turvy.
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The rain this year sent nature topsy-turvy.
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The world has turned topsy-turvy in my lifetime.
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“Not a doit I,” answered poor Wamba — “and for hanging up by the feet, my brain has been topsy-turvy, they say, ever since the biggin was bound first round my head; so turning me upside down may peradventure restore it again.”
Ivanhoe
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Responding to the vast demand from readers for a place in the topsy-turvy school, these two books were written to demonstrate the challenges of attending a school with such a bizarre curriculum.
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I also wonder what sort of topsy-turvy world we live in where being fat cannot be shamed but being slim is criticised with such freedom.
The Sun
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Research highlights how topsy-turvy the world has become.
Times, Sunday Times
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It shows how topsy-turvy the world is.
Times, Sunday Times
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In such a topsy-turvy season and with wet weather beckoning, how can you predict?
Times, Sunday Times
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Wondrous ethereal, soft comes along the third movement, as though exhausted from the topsy-turvy scherzo.
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The world has gone topsy-turvy.
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It is a topsy-turvy world that they inhabit.
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Last year was a topsy-turvy affair for my family.
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Research highlights how topsy-turvy the world has become.
Times, Sunday Times
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In such a topsy-turvy season and with wet weather beckoning, how can you predict?
Times, Sunday Times
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It shows how topsy-turvy the world is.
Times, Sunday Times
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How would they know which way the lake lies, when most of the time - in this topsy-turvy capital, punctured by the tall green craters of half a dozen ancient volcanoes - they cannot even see the lake?
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What a topsy-turvy world we live in.
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Then of course came the drought and everything has been topsy-turvy, with some events threatened by the lack of rain and grass coverage on the playing fields.
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Now folks begin with sweet things, and turn their dinners topsy-turvy.
Cranford
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What unites the two is the image of Francis as showman, as jongleur, he who turns things topsy-turvy and makes a hash of all conventions.
RIDDLE ME THIS
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How different this was from Sam's own raggle-taggle tribe and topsy-turvy house!
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It is a topsy-turvy world that they inhabit.
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And it just reminded me that no matter what else is happening, no matter how much you think your life is topsy-turvy, the world is moving on and in ways that are beautiful to see - if one could just stop and look for a moment.
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The weather this month has turned topsy-turvy.
Times, Sunday Times
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But for sheer drama in this topsy-turvy year, nothing beats the next 11 days as Democratic voters write their own dear-John letters.
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But it has been that kind of topsy-turvy election year.
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So would it be if the falcon were to flee from the duck, and the gerfalcon from the heron, and the great pike from the minnow, and if the stag were to chase the lion; so do things go topsy-turvy.
Cligés. English
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It is an amazing topsy-turvy season.
The Sun
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Now folks begin with sweet things, and turn their dinners topsy-turvy.
Cranford
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They may not get many better opportunities than this topsy-turvy season.
Times, Sunday Times
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It continued the astonishing, topsy-turvy nature of this series.
The Sun
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It is a topsy-turvy game.
Times, Sunday Times
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But by tomorrow I'll be working 8pm to 8am, and everything will become very topsy-turvy.
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A full-time career in the topsy-turvy world of film and television production is a very real possibility for her future.
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On a gloomy Saturday afternoon against Safina, Kuznetsova hit freely and kept her composure, unlike her drama-filled path to the final that included topsy-turvy wins against No. 2 Serena Williams and Samantha Stosur of Australia in her previous two rounds.
Kuznetsova wastes no time in topping Safina for French title
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In her topsy-turvy upside down world she could clearly make out exactly where her body was supposed to be going but she misinterpreted it somewhere from perception to motion.
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And even though they now stand 11 points shy of fifth place with games running out, the topsy-turvy nature of Conference North means anything can yet happen.
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I also wonder what sort of topsy-turvy world we live in where being fat cannot be shamed but being slim is criticised with such freedom.
The Sun
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Hung unevenly along the wall, the topsy-turvy letters spelling Water decline toward the floor in a symbolic cascade.
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Everything is topsy-turvy: there is a Cadillac in the attic, the living are dead, wives are knives, crows are white, a joke walks into a bar.
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Evidence from matching geological ages and structures turns the world topsy-turvy.
THE EARTH: An Intimate History
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What a topsy-turvy world we live in.
The Sun
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But he also admitted that an excessively gung-ho attitude had cost that 2001 team dear, especially in that topsy-turvy Calcutta Test, when Australia lost seven wickets in the final session.
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Ever since the Swedish Academy made public its decision, I have lived in festive intoxication, an enchanting topsy-turvy, and I cannot illustrate its consequences on my mind and soul better than by pointing to a pretty and curious love poem by Goethe.
Thomas Mann - Banquet Speech
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Too much protection for goalkeepers would make the game topsy-turvy.
Times, Sunday Times
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This sudden development turned all our plans topsy-turvy.
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They both show us a topsy-turvy world, a world turned inside-out by the particular lens through which it is viewed.
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It is an amazing topsy-turvy season.
The Sun
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The world has gone topsy-turvy.
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After a topsy-turvy season in which the supporting-actress category was the most in flux, it's nice to see the 63-year-old veteran get her first nomination.
Oscar Snubs and Surprises: Who Missed the Cut?
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It just ‘happens’ and turns our lives topsy-turvy.
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In the topsy-turvy chaos of a web world where images and ideas are deracinated, massively projected, manipulated and recycled, Lawson's beachwear has already become iconic – and in a small way, revolutionary.
Nigella Lawson and the great burkini cover-up
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This is the topsy-turvy political world we now live in.
The Sun
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Evidence from matching geological ages and structures turns the world topsy-turvy.
THE EARTH: An Intimate History
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Too much protection for goalkeepers would make the game topsy-turvy.
Times, Sunday Times
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The film is about an old couple who have this gorgeous son, and how after leading a happily married life their world suddenly turns topsy-turvy because of one incident.
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It continued the astonishing, topsy-turvy nature of this series.
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Alas, yes, so topsy-turvy is existence," I acknowledge sadly.
Chapter 36
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It's the kind of topsy-turvy world we inhabit in our sleep, but creating these unusual clothes has been anything but sweet dreams for the young designer.
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That the world has turned topsy-turvy is enough to cope with for the present.
Times, Sunday Times
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What a topsy-turvy world we live in.
The Sun
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It all converged one day during his topsy-turvy four-month ride as chief executive officer, when Upside magazine listed his company among the hot 100 firms in technology.