arse about face

Definitions

1. 1

   Placed or arranged the opposite way to the way it should be.

   • No wonder it doesn't look right mate, you've got the whole thing arse about face.
   • It’s absurd, topsy-turvy, arse-about-face. But shit, nonetheless, demands a reading, and vice versa.
   • Someone blows a hole in the head of the owner a couple of places along the Gap and nobody seems to give a shit. Fucking arse about face this fucking place.
2. 2

   Arranged in a confused or haphazard way

   Arranged in a confused or haphazard way; muddled.

   • Use them to inpregnant^([sic]) a woman: muddle up past and future, in-breed across time-zones, turn the family tree into a tangled bush, roots and shoots all arse about face.
3. 3

   In a manner that is opposite to or the reverse of the way it should be, backwards.

   • We've been looking at it arse about face.
   • ‘Look, Mary. That chap is sitting arse about face. He's having a laugh. He can't be serious.’ ‘Don't be so critical, George. More than likely it's his first time on a horse.’
   • What was it about Charlie Resnick that made him so special? With his shirt still crumpled from the wash and his tie knotted arse-about-face.
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      In a confused or haphazard manner.

      • Meanwhile the Law, as usual, tumbles arse about face: the killings multiply; the cops are clueless and duly arrest the wrong man.

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