Translations for „topsy-turvy“ in the English » German Dictionary

I . topsy-turvy [ˌtɒpsiˈtɜ:vi, Am ˌtɑ:psiˈtɜ:r-] inf ADJ

topsy-turvy

chaotisch

topsy-turvy priorities

unklare Prioritäten

II . topsy-turvy [ˌtɒpsiˈtɜ:vi, Am ˌtɑ:psiˈtɜ:r-] inf ADV

to turn sth topsy-turvy

etw auf den Kopf stellen a. fig

topsy-turvy ADJ

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topsy-turvy cake tower FOOD

Topsy-Turvy-Kuchen m

topsy-turvy cake tower FOOD

kunstvoller Kuchen aus schief gestapelten Einzelteilen

Examples from the PONS Dictionary (editorially verified)

topsy-turvy priorities

unklare Prioritäten

to turn sth topsy-turvy

etw auf den Kopf stellen a. fig

Monolingual examples (not verified by PONS Editors)

English

Most commonly the story describes some kind of ridiculous, topsy-turvy world.

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It was a topsy-turvy season.

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She dreads her father to a great extent and fears that things will go topsy-turvy if their relationship blossoms into love.

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For to rush headlong into unseemly and foreseen danger while trying to avoid future plots seemed to me a topsy-turvy proceeded.

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This was because of the idea that everything was topsy-turvy in the lands of the maahinens.

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The world, he lamented, was topsy-turvy where people would defend the rich, powerful and influential, especially if it benefited them.

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In such films, scientific knowledge could be turned topsy-turvy at any time and it was this that provided the genre with its vitality, appeal, and endurance.

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He argued that the government was not for the people, but, in a topsy-turvy manner, the people were for the government.

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From early on, the company made a specialty of playful topsy-turvy entanglements that defied anatomical logic and which sometimes gave rise to bizarre imagery.

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His current project is to study how humans adapt to the topsy-turvy, zero-gravity atmosphere of long space flights.

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