Arse About Face Meaning

(idiomatic, Britain, Australia, New Zealand) Placed or arranged the opposite way to the way it should be.

Example:   No wonder it doesn't look right mate, you've got the whole thing arse about face.
2003, Ian Sansom, The Truth About Babies: From A-Z[1], Granta, ISBN 9781862075757, page 256:
  It’s absurd, topsy-turvy, arse-about-face. But shit, nonetheless, demands a reading, and vice versa.
2004, Mick Lee, Scream If You Want To Go Faster[2], Authors On Line Ltd, ISBN 9780755201099, page 78:
  Someone blows a hole in the head of the owner a couple of places along the Gap and nobody seems to give a shit. Fucking arse about face this fucking place.
2006, Peter North quoting an anonymous member of a local currency scheme, “Self-Analysis: Do Members see LETS as a Social Movement?”, in Alternative Currency Movements As A Challenge To Globalisation?: A Case Study of Manchester's Local Currency Networks[3], Ashgate Publishing, ISBN 9780754645917, Part II Manchester's Alternative Currency Networks, page 99:
  Like we didn't move here for my job, we came here (for ...) to become a student and study for a degree and it's arse about face. We tend to do things in an arse-about-face way no matter how hard we try. And I, at the risk of being hopelessly inarticulate I like the arse about face-ness of the LETS system.
2010, Sean Gallacher, The Eskimo, page 27,
  We've got it so arse about face in modern society.
Arranged in a confused or haphazard way; muddled.
2006, Liz Jensen, Egg Dancing, page 212,
  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.