arse about
adj1
Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, Slang, Vulgar The wrong way round; exactly opposite to that which is desirable; contrary; conceptually inverted; wrong.
- You've got this arse-about!
- For the dome of the belly turned arse about has its parallel in the eye that falls out like the contents of a broken egg and that in its evocation of and preempting of regeneration becomes, in Bataille's novel, unremittingly erotic and polymorphously perverse.1995, David Wills, Prosthesis, Stanford University Press, page 207:
2 more examples
- Strike me if wasn't thinking old Colonel Bill had got it arse about.2007, L. J. Spears, Jack Flagg, page 66:
- ‘This is arse-about, you know,’ I said. ‘You′ve got the athletic skills, and I'm the one going mountain climbing.[…].’2008, Kieran Kelly, Aspiring, Pan MacMillan Australia, page 65: