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muckefuck ([personal profile] muckefuck) wrote2010-04-14 11:20 am
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WotD: topsy-turvy

  1. verkehrtrum
  2. averechts, achterstevoren
  3. patas arriba
  4. damunt davall
  5. sens dessus dessous
  6. plith-draphlith
  7. bunoscionn
  8. wywrócony do góry nogami
  9. 뒤죽박죽
  10. 七顛八倒 qīdiānbādǎo

[identity profile] richardthinks.livejournal.com 2010-04-14 07:50 pm (UTC)(link)
I love the Portuguese "com as pernas no ar," to mean thoroughly mixed up or disordered, which one could apply to the sea during a storm.

Topsy-turvy suggests a quite specific condition to me, of Saturnalia-type inversion rather than simple disorder. I see dictionary.com offers both as definitions. How exactly do the matches you've found reflect this?

[identity profile] gorkabear.livejournal.com 2010-04-15 05:08 am (UTC)(link)
Otra manera en español: "Manga por hombro"

Una altra en català (sospito que no gaire correcta): "Potes enlaire"