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arsy-varsy (AR-see VAR-see) adjective, adverb

- Upside-down, backward, preposterous.

[A facetious rhyming compound of arse (a variant or ass); perhaps
coined after vice versa, from Latin versus, from vertere (to turn).]
Arsy-varsy is a reduplicative like vice versa.

~ Whats the best time to leave an organisation? When everything goes arsy-varsy!
~ Wish i could walk on my hands, it would be fun to see everything arsy-varsy for a change.
~ Recently in the paper, there was an article which said that history was being taught in a totally arsy-varsy manner to the students, due to lack of gumption of a nation to face its past in the eye.