Topsy Turvey World

Absolutely. Another phrase I've heard a few times lately is The World's Gone Mad. I think many of us feel like that.

It is a topsy-turvy world we live in and no wonder people feel seedy my mum's expression for feeling things were not right.

Billiounous heard this alot growing up apparently it meant feeling sickly. I don't know why not just say feeling sickly!

Oh yes Redhead, my Mother was always saying that we were bilious. She would dose us up with Andrews Liver Salts and Bengers Food.

Redhead56

Billiounous heard this alot growing up apparently it meant feeling sickly. I don't know why not just say feeling sickly!

Sickly does not mean the same as bilious
A “sickly child” is one prone to (often minor) illnesses, like a baby who is not thriving.
“Bilious” is what in the US is described as “nauseous” affected by or associated with nausea or vomiting.
You feel sick not “sickly”

Isn’t there an Enid Blyton story about Topsy Turvey World?

I remember reading The Famous Five books but not Topsy Turvey World🤔

I think Topsy Turkey Land was at the top of the Far Away Tree
25Avalon

Is that the one called “TheMagic Faraway Tree” aimed at 7 -9 year olds?

Not Turkey 🤣🤣🤣Turvey predictive text keeps changes it

Yes, I use it - right now, my house is topsy turvy, but I can’t be bothered, so I’m going up to bed 💤

Yes magic FarawayTree my most favourite book ever Mr Saucepanman, Dame washalot Moonface, Silky, Mr Whatizname and angry Pixie loved every story in that series

Yes predictive text didn’t like Topsy - gave me topsoil and Turvey was Turkey 🤣 topsoil turkey

Yes I still say Topsy Turvey for things in disarray.

Predictive text has a sense of humour - it turned 'topsy turvey" .......topsy turvy! And gave Bea 'topsoil' and 'turkey' instead. Good to know that technology can make us laugh!

Topsy Turvy is also a Mike Leigh film about Gilbert and Sullivan

We certainly used the expression "topsy-turvey" in my childhood, about untidy rooms, cats or dogs lying with their paws and tummies up waiting to be tickled etc.

Knowing my parents, neither would have approved of "arsy-versy" which means more or less the same thing. I doubt my mother even knew the expression.

Topsy turvy meant things were in a muddle when I was growing up and I would still use the words to mean that.

Topsy turvey in my house meant something was upside down, round the wrong way eg you had your vest back to front, wrong way round, you could have a picture hanging upside down, all topsy turvey.

Bea65

Yes predictive text didn’t like Topsy - gave me topsoil and Turvey was Turkey 🤣 topsoil turkey

I turned off predictive text on my laptop and phone it was driving me mad.

The settings on my phone inexplicably changed recently and when I sent a text this morning saying 'Primark have got quilted gilets in already' it turned into 'Primary have got quilted giblets in already', which left my friend a bit confused about whether I was at the butchers or looking at clothes.

AreWeThereYet

The settings on my phone inexplicably changed recently and when I sent a text this morning saying 'Primark have got quilted gilets in already' it turned into 'Primary have got quilted giblets in already', which left my friend a bit confused about whether I was at the butchers or looking at clothes.

😂😂

Mr Topsy Turvey - Roger Hargreaves’s. ‘The lunatics have taken over the asylum ‘ seems very ‘now’.