spinning-top

Answer: look no further than ST-Clegg spinning-top Clegg.

Campaigning - Montgomeryshire style. Glyn Davies 2008

Clegg's head is spinning faster than a spinning-top toy.

Campaigning - Montgomeryshire style. Glyn Davies 2008

When I was tired of reading, after a whole morning in the house, I would throw my plaid across my shoulders and set out; my body, which in a long spell of enforced immobility had stored up an accumulation of vital energy, was now obliged, like a spinning-top wound and let go, to spend this in every direction.

Swann's Way 2003

We paid our bill and got on the local elevator down from the spinning-top restaurant.

Along Came a Spider Patterson, James, 1947- 1993

This steadiness may vary during the flight of the projectile, as the shot may be unsteady for some distance after leaving the muzzle, afterwards steadying down, like a spinning-top.

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" Various

Dinky-Dunk came back from Buckhorn yesterday with a lot of the foolishest things you ever clapped eyes on -- a big cloth elephant that grunts when you pull its tail, a musical spinning-top, a high-chair, and a projecting lantern.

The Prairie Wife Arthur Stringer 1912

The children had scattered like marbles from a spinning-top.

A Prisoner in Fairyland Algernon Blackwood 1910

The man upon the threshold was not like a man; vastly pot-bellied, so that the dingy white of his shirt was only narrowly framed by the black of his jacket, swollen in body to the comic point, collarless, with a staircase of unshaven chins crushed under his great, jovial, black-mustached face, the creature yet moved on little feet like a spinning-top on its point, buoyantly, with the gait of a tethered balloon.

Those Who Smiled And Eleven Other Stories Perceval Gibbon 1902

Sometimes he fell, like a spinning-top, from sheer merriment.

The Little White Bird; or, Adventures in Kensington gardens 1898

Sometimes he fell, like a spinning-top, from sheer merriment.

Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens 1898