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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