arse about face adjective 2adverb 2 adjective2 •(UK, slang) Placed or arranged the opposite way to the way it should be.No wonder it doesn't look right mate, you've got the whole thing arse about face. •(UK, slang) Arranged in a confused or haphazard way; muddled.Use them to inpregnant^([sic]) a woman: muddle up past and future, in-breed across time-zones, turn the family tree into a tangled bush, roots and shoots all arse about face. — 2006 adverb2 •(UK, slang) In a manner that is opposite to or the reverse of the way it should be, backwards.We've been looking at it arse about face. — 2005 •(UK, slang) In a confused or haphazard manner.Meanwhile the Law, as usual, tumbles arse about face: the killings multiply; the cops are clueless and duly arrest the wrong man. — 2005
