fall+over
1fall over backwards — or[fall over oneself] {v. phr.} To do everything you can to please someone; try very hard to satisfy someone. * /The hotel manager fell over backwards to give the movie star everything she wanted./ * /The boys fell over themselves trying to get… …
2fall over backwards — or[fall over oneself] {v. phr.} To do everything you can to please someone; try very hard to satisfy someone. * /The hotel manager fell over backwards to give the movie star everything she wanted./ * /The boys fell over themselves trying to get… …
3fall over yourself — See: FALL OVER BACKWARDS …
4fall over yourself — See: FALL OVER BACKWARDS …
5fall over — verb a) To fall from an upright or standing position to a horizontal or prone position. b) Of an argument, to fail to be valid …
6To fall over — Fall Fall (f[add]l), v. i. [imp. {Fell} (f[e^]l); p. p. {Fallen} (f[add]l n); p. pr. & vb. n. {Falling}.] [AS. feallan; akin to D. vallen, OS. & OHG. fallan, G. fallen, Icel. Falla, Sw. falla, Dan. falde, Lith. pulti, L. fallere to deceive, Gr.… …
7fall over backward — phrasal see fall all over oneself …
8fall over oneself — phrasal see fall all over oneself …
9fall over one's feet — verb To hasten. Show me the rest of the house, I said, to distract him. He fell over his feet to oblige …
10fall over oneself — verb To be unusually enthusiastic. Catholic families in the town were falling over themselves in their anxiety to invite the young Franciscans to come and sit in their parlors and be made much of, with cookies and soft drinks …
