arse about

present singular third person arses about · participle present arsing about · participle past arsed about · past arsed about · alternative arse-about

1. CommonwealthIrelandUKalternativeintransitiveslangvulgarAlternative form of arse around.
2. obsoleteslangTo turn round.

alternative arse-about

1. CommonwealthIrelandUKnot comparableslangvulgarThe wrong way round; exactly opposite to that which is desirable; contrary; conceptually inverted; wrong.

   You've got this arse-about!

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   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

   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