arsy versy

Etymology
Alteration of, a blend of an alteration of + , modeled on.

Adverb

 * 1)  Tumbling upside down; head over heels; backwards.
 * 2) * 1548, (translator), The Paraphrase of Erasmus upon the Newe Testamente, London: Edward Whitchurch, Volume1,  16,
 * Who would not haue iudged that same ryche man to haue been a perfecte exaumple and paterne of most welthie and happy state: and this poore Lazare man to be a paterne of vtter miserie? But felicitie is in nowyse to be measured by such thinges as fortune geueth to men in this lyfe. But in the matter that we nowe speake of, altogether was sodainly turned in and out clene arsie versy.