In Robert Charles Wilson's novel "Vortex" he writes:
In the morning I toured him through Vox Core, heel to head.
I know the saying "head over heels", but this one is new to me. What does it mean?
(Disclaimer: non-native speaker here)
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Sign up to join this communityThe likely meaning is “from bottom to top”, with heel to head being used as a variant of from head to heel (ie, of Latin a capite ad calcem), which is an older (and now less common) form of from head to toe or from head to foot.