Adverb
head over heels
- Tumbling upside down; somersaulting.
- She tripped and rolled head over heels down the hill.
- Synonyms: arse over tit, ass over teakettle, base over apex
- At top speed; frantically.
- Hearing the noise in the dark, the children ran head over heels back home.
- Synonyms: full tilt, full throttle, like mad
- (usually with in love) Hopelessly, madly, to distraction, deeply, utterly.
- 1904, Henry Huttleston Rogers, “Letter from Rogers to Clemens (Mark Twain) dated 8 February 1904”, in Mark Twain's Correspondence with Henry Huttleston Rogers, 1893–1909, 1969, University of California Press, page 555:
- I am head over heels in trouble.
- 1967, Russell B. Long, Congressional Record: Proceedings and Debates of the 90th Congress – First Session, United States Congress, page 16122:
- Some of them lose and wind up head over heels in debt. Some of them win and wind up head over heels in debt.
- 1904, Henry Huttleston Rogers, “Letter from Rogers to Clemens (Mark Twain) dated 8 February 1904”, in Mark Twain's Correspondence with Henry Huttleston Rogers, 1893–1909, 1969, University of California Press, page 555:
- French: jambes par-dessus tête
- German: purzelnd, überschlagend, kopfüber
- Italian: gambe all'aria
- Portuguese: cabeça pra baixo, ponta-cabeça
- Russian: вверх нога́ми
- Spanish: cabeza abajo, patas arriba attn es
- German: Hals über Kopf, wie verrückt, wie wahnsinnig
- Italian: a gambe levate
- Russian: сломя́ го́лову
- French: follement, éperdument, à la folie, fou
- Italian: follemente, perdutamente, fuori di testa
- Russian: по́ у́ши
head over heels (not comparable)
- Hopelessly smitten, madly in love.
- French: fou amoureux
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