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Volcano1985 Posted 17 years ago
Grammar

On first coming to England, I fell ...............

On first coming to England, I fell .................. in love with a girl who lived in the flat below mine.

feet over hands
hole over hole
foot in mouth
elbow to toe
head over heels


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head over heals as if doing somersaults.

  • head over heals as if doing somersaults.
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head over heals

as if doing somersaults.
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Volcano1985head over heels
The only explanation is that it is an idiom. If the history of English was such that to fall heels over head in love was the idiom for falling madly in love, then heels over head would be the right answer. But that's not the expression that was accepted for that meaning. Most idioms have to be memorized as idioms. T

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