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[chezmax]

[Poll #1352022]

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[insaint.livejournal.com]

I say "maybe" because I think I know what it is, but it wouldn't be the first time that I deduced a wrong meaning. :)

[chezmax]

It means to take a wild fall, with the suggestion that the feet were above the head at some point :)

[insaint.livejournal.com]

Ah, good. Put me down for a "yes" then. ;)

[poeticalpanther.livejournal.com]

It was "arse over tits" when I was a kid.

[rhiannonstone.livejournal.com]

I once drunkenly said "tits over teakettle," which amused the hell out of me. :)

[chezmax]

I love mixed metaphors. Although, that's only barely mixed.

I once told someone that something easy would be a 'cake in the park'.

[rhiannonstone.livejournal.com]

I like "a cake in the park!" Although it immediately songviruses me with "Macarthur Park."

[quatch.livejournal.com]

This merely proves it to be a shared delusion of those who know you. I'd look it up on urban dictionary, but that site scares me.

[chezmax]

It is actually there, and not perverse. On the other hand, I think I originally got the term from my grandmother :)

[zanate.livejournal.com]

Perhaps we should compromise with arse over titkettle and call it square :)

[moonrose.livejournal.com]

That was the only variation that came to mind but I can't remember where I ever heard it, so I thought maybe my mind made it up. Maybe I was just pulling from the collective unconscious again ;)

[poeticalpanther.livejournal.com]

It's the version used by the Pogues in their song And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda, among other places it's used:

And for ten weary weeks I kept myself alive
But around me the corpses piled higher
Then a big Turkish shell knocked me arse over tits
And when I woke up in my hospital bed

[phantasm13.livejournal.com]

I learned the phrase from my Gramma Hare.

[balatro.livejournal.com]

Obviously the poll is heavily influenced by Canadians. :P

[chezmax]

Only because I know a lot of them.

on the other hand, of the people who said yes to having had used it, 6 of them are non-canadian.

[balatro.livejournal.com]

I hadn't even heard of it and I have watched plenty of British television so one would think...we don't even use the term tea kettle for the most part. Unless you're old or perhaps from New England. :P

[charles.livejournal.com]

The original line was "arse over head", which you must admit fits the rhyme better.

[poeticalpanther.livejournal.com]

Granted; I just knew it was in there in the Pogues' version, cause I've sung it a few hundred times. :)

[poeticalpanther.livejournal.com]

NA-NANA-NANA, NA-NA-NANA-NA,
NA-NANA-NANA, NA-NA-NANA-NA!

W00t! :D

[whirling-woman.livejournal.com]

I first heard it from my Mom. Generally in reference to skiing accidents.

[chezmax]

Wierd. In the message that got sent to me, 'View Answers' was in Japanese. :)

[gx7.livejournal.com]

Must be a southern ontario thing. Never heard of it - so I'm sticking with Sas on this one!

[musesshadow.livejournal.com]

I wouldn't be surprised to find out that this something originating in farming communities - we're full of colourful sayings ;)