arsy

arsy-varsy

1. adjective Backwards; incorrect or mixed up; contrary to what is expected or desired. Likely a play on the Latin vice versa. Primarily heard in UK. The wiring in whole building is arsy-varsy, so we have to get a new electrician in to set things right.
2. adverb Done in a backwards, incorrect, or mixed up fashion. Primarily heard in UK. Oh, darn. I've gone and put my clothes on all arsy-varsy.

arsy-versy

1. adjective Backwards; incorrect or mixed up; contrary to what is expected or desired. Likely a play on the Latin vice versa. Primarily heard in UK. The wiring in whole building is arsy-versy, so we have to get a new electrician in to set things right.
2. adverb Done in a backwards, incorrect, or mixed up fashion. Primarily heard in UK. Oh, darn. I've gone and put my clothes on all arsy-versy.
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
See also:
  • arsy-varsy
  • arsy-versy
  • arsis
  • make a fist of
  • make a good/bad/etc. fist of (something)
  • bulletproof
  • appropriate for
  • in-between
  • as good, well, etc. as the next person
References in periodicals archive
Kartosuwirjo dan Daud Beureueh (Bandung: Sega Arsy, 2006), p.
Why did Kartosuwiryo start shooting? An account of Dutch-Republican-Islamic forces interaction in West Java, 1945-49
Kyrgyz Interior Minister, Lieutenant General of police Moldomusa Kongantiev met with individual delegates of Kurultai of Concord, reported information and public relations agency on March 26.During the meeting, Kurultai delegates from Talas Bulutbek Bagyshbekov and Kochkor village of Naryn region Amankul Moldogaziev and Arsy Joldoshev thanked the staff of Interior Ministry for the measures taken to preserve the stability, security, territorial integrity and made suggestions for improvement of internal affairs.In turn, Kongantiev thanked Kurultai delegates for their active support in the police.
Moldomusa Kongantiev meets with regional delegates of Kurultai of Concord
On this very Wednesday 90 years ago, they were on a 25-mile south-west haul through the forest to cross the River Oise at Compiegne and camp for the night five miles further at a place with the unhappy name of Arsy. That morning, Warrior had escaped unharmed from a direct hit on his temporary stable.
Time to remember horses and men of 90 years ago
He shakes his head reflecting on the scripts he had to bring to life: "I mean it sounds arsy but it is hard as an actor to do that sort of material.
I threw my TV career right down the panto; Musicals make me richer as a person
It sounds a bit arsy but he's in touch with his feminine side and I love that.
We waited six weeks before we made love ..all of my friends thought Kenny was gay; EXCLUSIVE: TV'S GABBY LOGAN ON KEANE, MARRIAGE, BABIES AND KIRSTY
National Economic and Development Authority Director General Arsy Balisacan, who was president of the Philippine Human Development Network at the time, wrote in his foreword to PHDR 2005: "[T]he Moro conflict has been viewed as an exclusively
Peace is the answer
And for Disaster Rehabilitation and Recovery, the Director General of the National Economic and Development Authority, Arsy Balisacan.
Congratulations are in order
Jeff has located some interesting place-names, butt they have double meanings: "On the subject of risque sounding (or looking) "posterior" place-names, such as Arsy (France), Poo (Spain) and Bum (Russia)--all listed in The Times Index-Gazetter (1965)--I recently came across the humorous Upper Big Bottom, the name of a bend in a river in Humphreys County, Tennessee.
Giant Kickshaws
In a corridor, I was able to ask Socioeconomic Planning Secretary Arsy Balisacan (who sits over the government's entire statistical establishment) about his promise to upgrade the frequency of official poverty data to annual from triennial.
One thousand statisticians