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all over the shop

all over the shop prepositional phrase: all over the place.

Prepositional phrase

  1. (Australia, UK, informal) All over the place.
    • While witness was in the shop, a gentleman came running in, and retched all over the shop. He cried out to the boy, "What have you given me here?"1823, Edmund Burke, “Chronicle, March 1822”, in The Annual Register, or a view of the history, politics, and literature, of the year 1822, volume 64, page 52
    • When Cummings was asked if he blamed MPs for the abuse, he replied: “The MPs said we will have a referendum, we will respect the result and then they spent three years swerving all over the shop.2019 September 26, “Dominic Cummings: delivering Brexit only way to solve abuse of MPs”, in The Guardian, →ISSN

Synonyms of all over the shop

Questions about all over the shop

What does all over the shop mean?
All over the shop means all over the place.
What part of speech is all over the shop?
All over the shop is a prepositional phrase.

Words near all over the shop in the dictionary

  1. all over the gaff
  2. all over the lot
  3. all over the map
  4. all over the place
  5. all over the place like a mad woman's custard
  6. all over the shop
  7. all over the show
  8. all over the world
  9. all over with
  10. all perfect
  11. all perfects

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