Head over heels (phrase) – if you are or fall head over heels in love with someone, you love or start to love them very much.
Definition – Macmillan Dictionary
История идиомы head over heels очень интересна. Она появилась в 14 веке в варианте heels over head и употреблялась в значении «вверх ногами» или «вверх тормашками».
Но с течением времени что-то пошло не так и перевернулось с ног на голову, а вернее наоборот, с головы на ноги, и фраза heels over head превратилась в head over heels. Первый письменный пример использования «перевернутой» фразы можно найти в 1771 году в произведении Contemplative Man Герберта Лоуренса:
He gave [him] such a violent involuntary kick in the Face, as drove him Head over Heels.
А одни из первых примеров использования фразы head over heels в значении чувств относятся к 19 веку:
About ten years ago Lotta fell head over heels in love with a young Philadelphian of excellent family.
Indiana newspaper 'The Lebanon Patriot', June 1833
Michael Croker... swore that he was overhead and heels in love with her, and that he had no business in this world unless she consented to make him happy.
Irish newspaper 'The Ballyshannon Herald', September 1832
Отсутствие кавычек в примерах может означать, что фраза была распространенной и употреблялась довольно часто.
Фраза head over heels имеет много синонимов. В первом значении, которое описывает необычное положение вещей, среди синонимов: upside-down, topsy-turvy, topple up tail, bass-ackwards.
В значении, когда мы говорим о чувствах и о любви – head over heels in love, которое является наиболее употребительным в наши дни, синонимы: over head and ears, head over ears.
Don't we all know that it must be a match – that they were over head and ears in love with each other from the first moment they met? Did not I see them together in Devonshire every day, and all day long; and did not I know that your sister came to town with me on purpose to buy wedding clothes?
Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility, 1811
Warmth suddenly enveloped the child, so that she was head over ears in love, but distrusting the thing as a mature person does.
Doris Lessing, Old John's Place, 1951
Public and press were head over heels for autonomous vehicles.
Holman W. Jenkins, WSJ, Self-Driving Car Returns to Earth, 30 November. 2018
She added, more reflectively, `Alex doesn't give me the impression, though, of having fallen head over heels.
Catherine Gaskin, The Ambassador’s women, 2001
You have to remember that I was head over heels in love with Bill.
Peter Robinson, Aftermath, 2001
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