ass over teakettle vs headlong

ass over teakettle

adj
  • In complete disarray. 

adv
  • Tumbling upside down. 

  • Frantically. 

headlong

adj
  • Reckless, impetuous. 

  • Rushing forward without restraint. 

  • Precipitous. 

  • Plunging downwards head foremost. 

adv
  • With an unrestrained forward motion. 

  • Rashly; precipitately; without deliberation; in haste, hastily. 

  • With the head first or down. 

verb
  • To precipitate. 

How often have the words ass over teakettle and headlong occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )