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Synonyms for head over heels


Grammar : Adv
Spell : hed
Phonetic Transcription : hɛd



Définition of head over heels

Origin :
  • 1771, "a curious perversion" [Weekley] of Middle English heels over head. Head (n.) and heels have been paired in alliterative phrases since at least c.1400, and the whole image also was in classical Latin (per caput pedesque ire).
  • adv very much
Example sentences :
  • He put his shoulder to it like a little fool and went in head over heels.
  • Extract from : « Lord Jim » by Joseph Conrad
  • Head over heels he went as the pistol exploded for the second time.
  • Extract from : « The Daffodil Mystery » by Edgar Wallace
  • His mother sick and head over heels in debt to the Waldstrickers!
  • Extract from : « The Secret of the Storm Country » by Grace Miller White
  • I grappled his arm, and the recoil of it flung me head over heels.
  • Extract from : « IT and Other Stories » by Gouverneur Morris
  • It was right in my path and I tumbled into it, literally, head over heels.
  • Extract from : « High Adventure » by James Norman Hall
  • It turned them head over heels, and swept them up the shingly shore.
  • Extract from : « The Lonely Island » by R.M. Ballantyne
  • And several times he managed to throw Peter head over heels.
  • Extract from : « The Tale of Peter Mink » by Arthur Scott Bailey
  • At the end of the afternoon Skippy was head over heels in love.
  • Extract from : « Skippy Bedelle » by Owen Johnson
  • The doctor who was just here keeps humming 'Head over heels.'
  • Extract from : « A Family of Noblemen » by Mikhal Saltykov
  • If you shake your fist at me again, I'll pitch you head over heels into that snowdrift.
  • Extract from : « The Battle Ground » by Ellen Glasgow

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