topsy-turvy

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IPA（発音記号）

/ˌtɒpsɪˈtəːvi/

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Backwards or upside down; also, having been overturned or upset. / (figuratively) Not in the natural order of things; in a disorderly manner; chaotically.

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After the storm, the small coastal town lay topsy-turvy, with fishing boats on rooftops and bicycles tangled in trees.

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意味（1）

Backwards or upside down; also, having been overturned or upset.

If we without his helpe can make a head / To puſh againſt a kingdome, with his helpe / We ſhal oreturne it topsie turuy down, …

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意味（2）

(figuratively) Not in the natural order of things; in a disorderly manner; chaotically.

Diuilliſh it is to deſtroy a cittie, but more then diuilliſhe, to euert citties, to betraye countreies, to cause ſeruaunts to kyll their maiſters, parentes theyr children, children their parentes, wiues their huſbandes, and to turne all things topſy turuy, and yet it doth ſo, as ſhalbe declared.

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