arse over tit
Tumbling; falling; upside-down, unstable or unbalanced.
I missed the step and went arse over tit.
tit
/tɪt/
noun 10verb 2
Collocations
3VERB + TIT
break, come, gave, name, play, ride, said, say
TIT + NOUN
obriety, one's, tat, tot
PREP.
with
Definitions
noun
1
A person's breast or nipple.
I have enjoyed taking to my writing bureau and writing about poverty, benefit reform and the coalition government in the manner of a shit Dickens, or Orwell, but with tits.
Sanch tossed his head back, threw open his shirt, cupped his beanbag-shaped male breasts and jiggled them at us. Ford and I were laughing but Kat said, "I think they're the most beautiful tits."
2
An animal's teat or udder.
A large bowl of suckulent ^([sic]) raspberries with clotted yellow cream fresh from the goat's tit on the diamond and ruby-studded glass end-table.
3
An idiot; a fool.
Look at that tit driving on the wrong side of the road!
I know a lot of tits, Guv'nor. But I don't know any quite as fucking stupid as these two.
4
A police officer; a "tithead".
noun
1
A light blow or hit (now usually in the phrase tit for tat).
verb
1
To strike lightly, tap, pat.
Come tit me, come tat me, come throw a kiss at me—how is that?
2
To taunt, to reproach.
they would vpbraid me therewith calling me idle Drone; Titting and flouting at me, that I should offer to sit downe at boord with cleane hand.
Thesaurus
Idioms & Phrases
tit for tat
Equivalent retribution; an act of returning exactly what one gets; an eye for an eye.
If you hit me, I’ll hit you back; tit for tat.
suck hind tit
To feed from an inferior source of food.
hind tit
An inferior source of food or other resources.
Example Bank
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I have enjoyed taking to my writing bureau and writing about poverty, benefit reform and the coalition government in the manner of a shit Dickens, or Orwell, but with tits.
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Sanch tossed his head back, threw open his shirt, cupped his beanbag-shaped male breasts and jiggled them at us. Ford and I were laughing but Kat said, "I think they're the most beautiful tits."
Wiktionary03
Sun readers don't care who runs the country as long as she's got big tits.
Wiktionary04
Come tit me, come tat me, come throw a kiss at me—how is that?
Wiktionary05
they would vpbraid me therewith calling me idle Drone; Titting and flouting at me, that I should offer to sit downe at boord with cleane hand.
Wiktionary06
[…] he was reſolved, for the time to come, to ride his tit with more ſobriety.
WiktionaryUsage Notes
i Register
In some senses, tit is marked as slang, vulgar, derogatory, archaic, obsolete. Watch for register when choosing this word.
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