单词 | head over heels |
释义 | head over heels (once / 9883 pages) adv When you're head over heels, you're confused or thrown off by something. People say they're head over heels in love when they feel disoriented and swept up by their romantic feelings. You can use head over heels for a particular state of disarray, although it usually shows up in the context of love, and it's come to mean something closer to "extremely." Your parents are lucky to be head over heels in love after being married more than twenty years. The original phrase was "heels over head," which makes sense, since our heads are normally over our heels. For some reason, it was reversed to head over heels in the eighteenth century. WORD FAMILYhead over heels USAGE EXAMPLESI love him, but I’m not head over heels in love. Slate(Nov 02, 2016) Penny promptly falls head over heels for collective founder Rob. Washington Post(Oct 14, 2016) On one score, he launched himself head first into the end zone and flipped head over heels as he went down. Washington Times(Oct 10, 2016) adv in disorderly haste we ran head over heels toward the shelter Syn heels over head, in great confusion, topsy-turvily, topsy-turvy |
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