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# That turn of phrase 'arse over tit' makes much more sense than 'head over heels'.
Other common english phrases that make no sense include 'cheap at half the price' (meaning 'very cheap') and 'you can't have your cake and eat it'. You blatently can, that's what cakes are for.
/tangent
(_Felix 's school of dance and occult sciences, Sat 17 Jul 2004, 1:43, archived)
# "You can't have your cake and eat it"
means you can't keep the cake _and_ eat it.

/pedant
(Fido Dido, Sat 17 Jul 2004, 1:53, archived)
# What if
you don't eat all the cake. You're still in posession of what can be referred to as "Cake". Whilst eating it.
(I helped save b3ta! The Neville What what what, Sat 17 Jul 2004, 1:56, archived)
# You can though.
I've kept cakes for really quite a long time, and still been able to eat them. Makes no difference. Provided you don't keep them for weeks and they go all hard and difficult to digest.
(_Felix 's school of dance and occult sciences, Sat 17 Jul 2004, 1:56, archived)