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fall over
verb
- to lose one's balance and collapse to the ground
- to fall from an upright position
the vase fell over
- fall over oneselfto do everything within one's power
he fell over himself to be as helpful as possible
Idioms and Phrases
see under fall all over oneself .Example Sentences
According to everything you read on the news or on the Internet I should be just about ready to fall over dead.
This design reveals a stumbling-block that superficial people fall over.
She very soon began to rise and fall over the waves, with a short, uneasy motion, which was very disagreeable.
"Perhaps, after all, it is better for him," said Susannah gently; and moved so that the candle-light did not fall over her face.
No one stands like that in real life, and if you try it you will find how difficult it is not to fall over!
She heard the rushing of a water-fall over the cliff, now vibrating louder, now fainter as she listened.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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