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Definition of Fall over backwards
1. Verb. Try very hard to please someone. "She falls over backwards when she sees her mother-in-law"
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fall Over Backwards
Literary usage of Fall over backwards
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by American Neurological Association, Philadelphia Neurological Society, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association, Boston Society of Psychiatry and Neurology (1886)
"At the end of this time he gave up, because walking made him fall over backwards.
Twelve days after stopping work, on Feb. 26, 1883, he came to the hospital ..."
2. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by Philadelphia Neurological Society, American Neurological Association, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association (1886)
"At the end of this time he gave up, because walking made him fall over backwards.
Twelve days after stopping work, on Feb. 26, 1883, he came to the hospital ..."
3. Baily's Magazine of Sports and Pastimes (1881)
"Now a friend said to me, ' There is a horse you should buy; he * will turn rusty
at times, rear up and fall over backwards if you * upset him, ..."
4. ... Report on the Great Earthquake of 12th June 1897 by Richard Dixon Oldham (1899)
"... the match-box will fall over backwards, or if after having been put in rapid
motion it is suddenly stopped, it will fall over forwards. ..."
5. Special pathology and therapeutics of the diseases of domestic animals v. 2 by Ferenc Hutyra (1913)
"In many cases they kick and bite at the manger, neigh, rear, move in circles,
and finally collapse, or in some cases fall over backwards, by which time they ..."
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