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Definition of Heels over head
1. Adverb. In disorderly haste. "We ran head over heels toward the shelter"
Lexicographical Neighbors of Heels Over Head
Literary usage of Heels over head
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Works of Thomas Carlyle by Thomas Carlyle, Henry Duff Traill (1898)
"... European Diplomacies heels-over-head To expectant mankind, especially to Vienna
and Versailles, this Britannic-Prussian Treaty was a great surprise. ..."
2. History of Friedrich II. of Prussia, called Frederick the Great: in ten vol by Thomas Carlyle (1864)
"... or tumble heels-over-head in the Political relations of Europe altogether,
which ensued thereupon; miraculous, almost as the Earthquake at Lisbon, ..."
3. History of Friedrich II, of Prussia: Called Frederick the Great by Thomas Carlyle (1900)
"... European Diplomacies heels-over-head To expectant mankind, especially to Vienna
and Versailles, this Britannic-Prussian Treaty was a great surprise. ..."
4. History of Friedrich II of Prussia, Called Frederick the Great by Thomas Carlyle (1864)
"... summerset, or tumble heels- over-head in the Political relations of Europe
altogether, which ensued thereupon; miraculous, almost as the Earthquake at ..."
5. Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of English Usage by Inc. Merriam-Webster (1994)
"The original phrase was heels over head, which was recorded as early as the 14th
... The OED described it as “a corruption” of heels over head in 1898, ..."
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