Idiom
arse over tit
Vulgar
Meaning
Tumbling; falling; upside-down, unstable or unbalanced.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“He slipped on the ice and went arse over tit.”
“The ladder tipped and she went arse over tit into the flower bed.”
“The overloaded cart hit a pothole, sending crates and the hapless driver arse over tit across the cobblestones.”
Examples
simple
“He slipped on the ice and went arse over tit.”
contextual
“The ladder tipped and she went arse over tit into the flower bed.”
complex
“The overloaded cart hit a pothole, sending crates and the hapless driver arse over tit across the cobblestones.”
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