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Completely enamored of someone, typically a new romantic partner. This phrase is sometimes followed by "in love." Oh, I know he's head over heels in love with Christina—he won't stop gushing about her! We used to be head over heels, but now we just annoy each other most of the time.
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Fig. very much in love with someone. John is head over heels in love with Mary. They are head over heels in love with each other.
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Completely, thoroughly, as in They fell head over heels in love. This expression originated in the 1300s as heels over head and meant literally being upside down. It took its present form in the 1700s and its present meaning in the 1800s.
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The earlier, more logical, version of this phrase was heels over head ; the normal modern form dates from the late 18th century. It is often used figuratively of an extreme condition, as in head over heels in love , ‘madly in love’, or head over heels in debt , ‘deeply in debt’.
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So completely that one is upside down. This expression began life as heels over head, a far more logical description of being turned upside down, and appeared in print in a collection of Early English Alliterative Poems dating from ca. 1350. Four hundred years later an unknown poet turned the saying around: “He gave [him] such an involuntary kick in the face as drove him head over heels” (The Contemplative Man, 1771). This corruption stuck, but the principal sense in which the term is now used dates only from the nineteenth century. An early appearance in print is in David Crockett’s Narrative of the Life of David Crockett (1834): “I soon found myself head over heels in love with this girl.”
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Most people spend part of each day standing, and if they have normal anatomy their heads are over their heels in this position. Even sitting or lying down, the head is higher than the heels (if not over the heels). Yet the phrase "head over heels" is used in ways implying it is an unusual situation. How did such usage come to be, and why does it persist? Why is the more obvious "heels over head" not used?
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The Oxford English Dictionary describes "head over heels" as a corruption of "heels over head" (my emphasis). The latter phrase it cites from 1400.
My own experience is that as a small child "head over heels" was the first term I knew for what was later called a "somersault".
Colin Fine
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It's reversed to "head over heels" for humour - in the same way as "cheap at half the price". – mgb May 15 '12 at 16:57
It might be. Others suggest a different reason. Have you any supporting evidence for your confident assertion? – Colin Fine May 15 '12 at 22:30
The phrase is used to describe someone who has taken a tumble with so much force that their head follows their heels as they leave their feet and continue to roll forward. I guess as the head follows the heels in this kind of tumbling motion, a spectator would see head and heels in the described relation at some instant.
It's an exceptional condition because usually folks keep their balance and don't often fall into this type of accident or perform these kinds of acrobatics.
I usually hear this phrase as "falling head over heels", which usually describes a state of serious infatuation, as a metaphor for how quickly and helplessly humans get into this state. People do testify that they do "fall head over heels in love".
As a mishap or happy accident this happens perhaps even less frequently than taking a physical tumble, although seriously infatuated persons are known to take tumbles voluntarily and with gusto.
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...over has more than a hundred distinct uses, including Bridge over troubled water, The bear went over the mountain, The plane flew over the mountain, Amy lives over the hill, Barney spread the cloth over the table, and The book fell over.
the answer is that over can refer to a path of motion (as in The cow jumped over the moon), not just a location, so the smitten one is being depicted in mid-handspring.
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The English expression head over heels is parallel to German Hals über Kopf (neck over head), the only difference being that in German the expression is a logical image for someone falling down head first.
If OED has no explanation why in English things are the other way round one can only guess. Perhaps it is not mere chance that German Hals (neck) and English heels sound very similar.
All the same one would suppose that the expression should be heels over head. Maybe the expression sounded better with the short head /hed/ before heels with the long i. And I often found that idioms can take a form that contradicts logic but idioms often don't care for logic.
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