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topsy-turvydom

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Noun1.topsy-turvydom - a state of extreme confusion and disordertopsy-turvydom - a state of extreme confusion and disorder
confusion - disorder resulting from a failure to behave predictably; "the army retreated in confusion"
balagan - a word for chaos or fiasco borrowed from modern Hebrew (where it is a loan word from Russian); "it was utter and complete balagan!"


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It is a sign of the topsy-turvydom of our world that this termagant got her way,' the London mayoral candidate wrote in the Spectator Now Everett is doing something about it when she joins the field of 36,300 in the 28th running of the London event.
OK, admittedly, that second tidbit of wisdom actually comes from Harold Pinter and Robin Maughman, screenwriter and original author of ``The Servant,'' a film about freewheeling sex and class topsy-turvydom in 1960s Britain.
 
 
 
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