| 单词 | arse over tit |
| 释义 | > as lemmasarse over tit P1. In various expressions with the sense ‘head over heels; in confusion’, as arse over head, arse over tip, arse over tit, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > downward motion > falling > [phrase] > head over heels tail over top1303 top over tailc1330 heels over headc1400 tail and top1558 head over heels1678 over head and heels1678 heels over gowdy1751 head over tip1824 arse over tip1922 ass over tea-kettle1963 c1400 Life St. Anne (Minn.) (1928) l. 2721 (MED) Þe childer..played þer with þam at þe bawll; Þai welterd all ars ouer hede. 1565 W. Stewart tr. Breif Gathering Halie Signes f. 14 Quhairfore..haif ze mixit arse ouer head, oillis in the halie Sacrament of Baptisme? 1595 A. Munday tr. First Bk. Primaleon ix. 69 The Marques went arse ouer head, ouer his horse head to kisse the ground. 1672 M. Atkins Cataplus 51 Others by active fancy led Were at turning arse over head. 1710 E. Ward Life Don Quixote ii. viii. 148 Down he came, Arse over Head. 1834 J. B. Ker Ess. Archaiol. Pop. Eng. Phrases & Nursery Rhymes 105 Arse over head, as in the expression, ‘he fell arse over head.’ 1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. xv. [Circe] 445 Arse over tip. Hundred shillings to five. 1968 A. Diment Great Spy Race x. 184 I scrambled down a sharp bank..almost going arse over tit when my foot caught in a branch. 1972 Observer 24 Sept. 37/3 An alternative system which..turns Marx arse over tip. 1991 J. Kelman Burn (1992) 240 He walked as fast as he could..without slipping..arse over elbow into the burn. 2004 S. Hall Electric Michelangelo 228 There was something backwards about it, arse over tit as Riley would have said. < as lemmas |
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