Idioms and Idiomatic expressions.

I was looking about The Idiom Connection and came across these two:

fall head over heels

- to fall down (and maybe roll over)

The little boy fell head over heels when he fell down in the park.

fall head over heels in love (with someone)

- to fall deeply in love with someone

The young man fell head over heels in love with the girl in his English class.

Perhaps it is merely where I grew up, but I seldom hear "head over heels" for anything other than love these days. Recently a sportscaster used a less polite form of "rump over tea kettle".

But as usual, what you really want is how I would sign these: The first concept I think is best conveyed with ROLL modfied to show where the person experienced the fall. (This sign is available at ASL Browser.)

The second concept is more familiar as FALL IN LOVE (Thanks to Lifeprint.com for the animated gif.)