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Definition of Fall all over
1. Verb. Display excessive love or show excessive gratitude towards. "This student falls all over her former professor when she sees him"
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fall All Over
Literary usage of Fall all over
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Arena by Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) (1907)
"... and, as Shearman said, the kings of riches will fall all over themselves to
get into the Single-Tax wagon and save what remnant they can. ..."
2. Treasury of Knowledge and Library of Reference by Samuel Maunder (1855)
"... which is known, by experiment, to be the mean fall all over the earth per second.
Corollary 1. For other times, the continuous force produces ..."
3. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1829)
"... acting and reacting forces, or —— =10076 feet per second, which »8000 we know
is the exact mean ratio of fall all over the earth ..."
4. Butler and His Cavalry in the War of Secession, 1861-1865 by Ulysses Robert Brooks (1909)
"Then the shells began to fall all over the old field, which lay on the north side
of the river in our rear, as we lay on the banks of the river. ..."
5. Memoirs of the Geological Survey of India by Geological Survey of India (1881)
"... so early as April by the Indravati, as rather heavy Its slack and flood showers
fall all over the Bastar country in this times, month and even in March. ..."
6. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1907)
"Such particles no doubt fall all over the ocean ; but it is only on those parts
of the bottom which, by their distance from any land, receive accessions of ..."
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