topsy-turvy vs upside down

topsy-turvy

adj
  • Backwards or upside down. 

  • Chaotic; disorderly. 

noun
  • An act of turning something backwards or upside down, or the situation that something is in after this has happened. 

  • A situation where the natural order of things has been upset. 

  • Chaos, confusion, disorder. 

adv
  • Backwards or upside down; also, having been overturned or upset. 

  • Not in the natural order of things; in a disorderly manner; chaotically. 

verb
  • To turn topsy-turvy or upside down; to invert. 

  • To throw into chaos or disorder; to upset. 

upside down

adj
  • Inverted; turned so that the top is at the bottom. 

  • In great disorder. 

  • Owing more money for something than it is worth; having negative equity. 

adv
  • In great disorder. 

  • Inverted, so that the top is now at the bottom. 

How often have the words topsy-turvy and upside down occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )